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

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to endure in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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