You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Listed!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of memorable character actors playing mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. The director's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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