You Might Want a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Set on Water – In Order!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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