You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: The 20 Best Films Located on the Ocean – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable ensemble cast playing mercenaries employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his followers through the inverted ship to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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