You Might Want a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Motion Pictures Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Ocean Terror (1998)
This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.
18. Ocean Planet (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. The Last Voyage (1960)
The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.
14. Death on the Nile (1978)
Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.
13. Ocean Stillness (1989)
Two lead actors act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An Englishman, shipping goods for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This film version of the author's book is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of competitive swimming.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The main star gives a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a person fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.
8. Ship Commander (2013)
The main star does outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, based on real events. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.
7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)
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