You Should Consider a More Substantial Ship: 20 Finest Motion Pictures Taking Place at Sea – In Order!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by real events. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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