You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Set on Water – In Order!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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