You Might Want a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Movies Located on the Ocean – Listed!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing character actors acting as hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.
16. Ship of Fools (1965)
Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Sam Neill portray a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie Story (1954)
An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
The director gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
Robert Redford delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a person battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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