“Sea, scent of the sea / is the fault of the sea, the sky and the sea”. Summer rumbles, as well as the caded dance of the waves. On this rhythm we retrace 10 beautiful films, which deserve our time, set aboard a boat or a ship, survival stories or businesses in the ocean, rods of love lulled by the water or torn dramas, satires biting in cruise or marine battles that lap the story.
Here are the 10 best films set on board a ship or boat.
Triangle of Sadness (2022) by Ruben Östlund
A movie Provocative and Mordacewhich sometimes gives seasickness. The Norwegian director, who gave his best in subtlety and acumen with Force majeure (2014), here you take sticks from the rich from Luxury cruise without going too much for the thin.
Awarded with the golden palm at the Cannes Film Festival, Triangle of Sadness It is a satirical comedy set almost entirely on board a sumptuous ship, which runs into a storm that puts the stomachs in turmoil and spreads the class divisions. Absolutely to see.
Captain Phillips – Open Sea Attack (2013) by Paul Greengrass
A true story becomes a compelling thriller and a subtle reflection on the effects of globalization.
Tom Hanks He puts on yet another master’s test, in the uniform of Richard Phillips, the commander of the American merchant ship Maersk Alabama diverted on April 8, 2009 by a group of Somali pirates. The actor leverages all his measured strength to show us a courageous and intelligent man, who does everything to save his crew first.
An incredibly tense and excited film, not without political implications. 75% of the filming was shot during 60 days in open sea.
The legend of the pianist on the ocean (1998) by Giuseppe Tornatore
By the theatrical monologue Twentieth century by Alessandro Baricco to the winning film of five David di Donatello and an Oscar at the soundtrack of Ennio Morricone.
The protagonist: a pianist born on a transatlantic that has never put his feet on the ground and never wants to put them on, not even when the ship is destined to be destroyed. Interprets him Tim Rothmythical ex “hyena” of Quentin Tarantino. A seafood film, music, freedom and fears.
Titanic (1997) by James Cameron
There was a first and after Titanic. Hordes of spectators in tears in the late 90s welcomed Cameron’s drama with their heart destroyed, hit and sunk.
Titanic It is more of the love story that rides wards and the class division between Leonardo DiCaprio And Kate Winslet young girls. It is more than the tragic true story of the British transatlantic RMS Titanic poured in 1912 in its famous inaugural journey.
Titanic It is a tearing film triumph that immediately became myth, without the need for the demand of time. Is the Away with the wind at the end of the century. It is Colossal and is immediately cult.
Overwhelmed by an unusual fate in the blue sea of August (1974) Lina Wertmüller
Memorable film between comedy and drama, with sentimental and passionate implications, takes place first on one yacht in the midst of the Mediterranean Seathen on a gummaker in failure offshore, finally on a desert island.
In some ways the way of Triangle of Sadnessplays on social classes and sudden overturning. Mariangela Melato It is a horn and rich Milanese gentleman, Giancarlo Giannini He is a Rude and Sexy Sicilian Sicilian sailor. Iconic.
A David di Donatello and the not very lucky Hollywood remake of Guy Ritchie with Madonna.
The Queen of Africa (1951) by John Huston
A classic of the history of cinema with two legends at the height of their career, Humphrey Bogart And Katharine Hepburndirected by the master of the golden years of Hollywood John Huston.
The African Queen of the title is the boat with which the grumpy and dissolved Canadian captain played by Bogart offers a transition to the English missionary embodied by Hepburn when, in the Eastern Africa of 1914, they thunder the dawn of the First World War. Along the river between the two, the bickering rise as, also, of course, love. Oscar For Bogart.
The production had its adventures: Huston was obsessed with hunting so much that, for the exterior, he chose the Belgian Congo (the current democratic republic of the Congo) because he considered it perfect for the hunt for elephants. This fixation inspired the 1990 film White hunter, black heart by Clint Eastwood.
All is lost – Everything is lost (2013) by JC Chandor
After a collision with a container, an unnamed sailor is missing in the Indian Ocean with his sailboat out of use, between storms and sharks. Only actors: Robert Redford And the sea. A minimalist survival film, with a script of just 51 words.
Most of the filming took place in the water tank of the Baja Studios of Rosarito Beach in Mexico, built in 1997 for Titanic.
Master & Commander – challenge on the borders of the sea (2003) by Peter Weir
Navigating on the HMS Surprise, frigate of the British Navy, during the Napoleonic wars. Driving the bold captain Jack Aubrey, played by Russell Crowe. On board, his friend Stephen Maturin (Paul Bettany).
Between action, breathtaking battles and struggle for survival at sea, a film that offers an immersive experience and also a story of friendship. Two Oscars on the bulletin board, for photography and sound assembly.
Kon-Tiki (2012) by Joachim Rønning and Espen Sandberg
Norwegian films nominated for the 2013 Oscar for best foreign film, at home it was one of the major successes ever.
Traces the company ofNorwegian explorer and anthropologist Thor Heyerdahlwhich in 1947 sailed on a Balsa Zattera called Kon-Tiki, with a crew of six people, from the Peruvian coasts to the Atoll of Rairoia, through the Pacific Ocean, on a journey of 6900 km and 101 days, to demonstrate the validity of his revolutionary theory, that is, that the colonization of Polynesia could have occurred, in pre-colombian era, from populations of South America.
The name Kon-Tiki derives from an ancient Inca name of the rain god, Kon. In the film the protagonist is played by Pål Sverre Hagen.
From his expedition Heyerdahl himself drew a documentary, Kon-Tikifrom 1950, who won The Oscar for the best documentary.
Prisoners of the ocean (1944) by Alfred Hitchcock
Among the lesser known films of the thrill of the thrill there is one entirely set in one lifeboat. Obviously high voltage.
Prisoners of the ocean It is taken from the homonymous story by John Steinbeck. American and British civilians survived the sinking of their ship by a German submarine crowd the lifeboat, struggling to reach the ground. Among them there is an elegant lady with an impressive (Tallulah Bankhead), there is black waiter (Canada Lee), there is a sailor (William Bendix) injured in one leg…. When a German enemy is also saved from the water (Walter Slezak), the suspense on the leavened board.
