You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Films Set on Water – Listed!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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