You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – In Order!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a group of scene-stealing supporting players portraying hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the inverted ship to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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