You Should Consider a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Movies Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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