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

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his group through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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