You Might Want a More Substantial Ship: Top 20 Greatest Movies Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the inverted vessel to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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