You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Movies Set on Water – Listed!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the upturned hull to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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