You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Movies Set on Water – In Order!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing soldiers of fortune hired to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the inverted ship to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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