You're Gonna Need a More Substantial Ship: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's epic includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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