You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Films Set on Water – In Order!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.
17. RMS Titanic (1997)
Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.
15. Ultimate Trip (1960)
The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An British man, transporting items for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.
11. Juggernaut (1974)
This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of this writer's book is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.
9. Everything's Gone (2013)
The lead actor provides a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star does outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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