You Might Want a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Motion Pictures Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable character actors acting as soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie 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 Englishman, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a person battling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by real events. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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