You Might Want a Bigger Boat: 20 Finest Movies Set on Water – Listed!

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of memorable ensemble cast playing hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his flock through the inverted hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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