You Might Want a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Movies Set on Water – In Order!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a group of memorable supporting players playing hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.
19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)
A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.
16. Vessel of Madness (1965)
Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.
14. Murder on the Nile (1978)
Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which whittles down his suspects 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 pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.
12. The Maggie (1954)
An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.
11. Overwhelming Power (1974)
Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)
This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of sports participation.
9. All is Lost (2013)
The lead actor delivers a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.
7. Triangle (2009)
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