You're Gonna Need a Larger Vessel: Top 20 Greatest Films Set on Water – Ranked!

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his group through the upturned ship to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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