You Should Consider a Bigger Boat: The 20 Best Movies Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to Europe in 1933. The director's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his group through the flipped vessel to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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