You Might Want a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Movies Set on Water – Listed!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, based on true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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