You're Gonna Need a Bigger Boat: Top 20 Greatest Films Located on the Ocean – In Order!
20. Deep Rising (1998)
Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players playing hired guns contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.
19. 1900's Tale (1998)
A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.
18. Aquatic World (1995)
The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.
17. Titanic (1997)
Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring story of emancipation.
16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.
15. Final Journey (1960)
The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned European vessel Île de France.
14. Nile Killing (1978)
Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.
13. Sea Silence (1989)
Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.
12. Maggie's Tale (1954)
An British man, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.
11. Unstoppable Force (1974)
Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.
10. Ocean Disaster (1972)
This adaptation of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the upturned hull to security. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.
9. Total Loss (2013)
Robert Redford provides a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash 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 senior performer to film.
8. Captain Phillips (2013)
The lead actor delivers excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), 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 make you blub, you're not human.
7. Geometric Shape (2009)
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