You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Films Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director'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 UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted hull to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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