These bold films confront viewers and dare to offend
Akira Kurosawa's epic drama is soaked with rain scenes. The greatest downpour takes place during the film's climatic battle—all mud and blood in near-freezing temperatures.
Working their way through an upside-down interior of a sinking ship presents all sorts of watery hazards for survivors of this action disaster movie, with Kurt Russell, Josh Lucas, and Emmy Rossum among those getting cold and wet.
As if being attacked by an enraged dinosaur isn't enough, the carnivorous T.rex in 'Jurassic Park' opts to hunt down its human prey in pouring rain during one of the film's key scenes.
The crew of the fishing vessel Andrea Gail all end up in a watery grave in this storm-lashed drama, based on tragic real-life events.
Cinema's most famous beach kiss sees Burt Lancaster and Deborah Kerr both soaked as they enjoy a risqué roll in the waves.
The most celebrated rain dance in cinema history, Gene Kelly's set piece musical number remains one of the most iconic routines ever screened.
The environmental message running through this post-apocalyptic action film is stark: allow the polar ice cap to completely melt, let the sea levels rise to cover most of the land, and you'll be left having to deal with a bunch of murderous tobacco-loving pirates.
In 'The Rains' Came,' the Indian city of Ranchipur is devastated by an earthquake, which causes a flood, which causes a cholera epidemic. In the 1955 remake called 'The Rains of Ranchipur,' there's a spectacular flood sequence, a show-off set piece in which half a city is wiped away when a dam breaks.
Also known as 'La Curée,' this Roger Vadim drama was a solid box-office success in France, whereas it sunk in the United States. Jane Fonda and English actor Peter McEnery appear in plenty of wet scenes, including Fonda's character attempting to drown herself in swimming pool, and both ending up in a submerging Mustang automobile.
Made nearly 100 years ago, this epic melodrama cleverly weaves the biblical story of Noah and the Great Flood with a parallel tale about soldiers in the First World War. During the filming of the climactic flood scene, three extras allegedly drowned and numerous others were injured. The incident led to the adoption of new rules for movie stunt safety.
An errant iceberg, an unsinkable ship, and one the greatest maritime tragedies in history made 'Titanic' one of the highest-grossing films of all time.
Roll on 86 years and Russell Crowe appears as the grizzled patriarch in a film that garnered criticism from some quarters for its its perceived environmentalist political messages.
The first alien world the crew of the Endurance explore after passing through a wormhole into another galaxy is an aqua planet with massive tidal waves and no dry land.
This action drama follows the exploits of US Coast Guard recruits as they attempt to pass the tough Aviation Survival Technician program. Rivalry in the swimming pool and braving a tempestuous ocean storm separates the men from the boys.
Street musicians Stan and Ollie have no success earning money in the dead of winter in a bad neighborhood. Then Stan find a wallet and "another fine mess" ensues. It all ends in tears when Stan gets trapped in a barrel of water, his only escape being to drink the entire contents before it freezes solid.
Paul Newman's onscreen detective Lew Harper resurfaces in this neo-noir thriller only to face near-drowning with Mavis (Gail Strickland) as an abandoned swimming pool is deliberately flooded by the bad guys.
Replicating the iconic scene from 1962's 'Dr No' is which a bikini-clad Ursula Andress emerges from the sea, a buff-bodied Bond (Daniel Craig) gets beachgoers shaken and stirred in his first appearance as the British MI6 agent.
A submarine recovery team encounter deep-sea aliens as they attempt a rescue mission in a dark, freezing ocean. But with little oxygen left in the leaking submersibles, will they fall victim to drowning or otherworldly creatures?
Elvis gets all shook up in this pool scene from 'Jailhouse Rock' as the singer supports a floating Jennifer Holden during a swimming lesson.
The movie that made thousands of outdoor adventurers think again before kayaking down rivers in remote locations, the message this picture delivers is clear: don't mess with mountain boys.
Vernon and Irene Castle were a real-life dancing couple, noted for popularizing the foxtrot. Whether or not they ever took to water like Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, who portray the couple in this biographical musical comedy, we'll probably never know. But the pair appear to be making a big splash!
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Bathtubs feature prominently in this supernatural horror thriller, starring Harrison Ford and Michelle Pfeiffer. But it's in a lake towards the end of the film that we witness the depths of depravity.
A hijacked Boeing 747 crashes into the sea and sinks to the bottom of the ocean. Air pressure inside the jet maintains oxygen levels, but in time the fuselage begins to splinter and crack. Soon, the plane's interior is filling with icy-cold water. Surviving passengers, among them Jack Lemmon and Brenda Vaccaro, face a watery death, inside and out.
The unexplored waters of the Amazon hide an amphibious humanoid, a Gill-man who emerges from the black lagoon to terrorize a group of scientists.
Within 20 minutes of the opening titles, a shark has gobbled up a skinny dipping young woman off the coast of New England to make Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws' a watershed moment in moviemaking history.
Damp, claustrophobic, and alarmingly authentic, 'Sanctum' is inspired by a real-life cave diving incident when a team of cavers became trapped in an underwater cave system after a freak storm collapsed the entrance.
Workers on a research and drilling facility at the bottom of the Mariana Trench encounter hostile creatures after an earthquake destroys the complex. But it's not easy escaping from a location set 10,984 m (36,037 ft) below the ocean.
Jack Nicholson keeps evil Nurse Ratched and other asylum staff at bay using only tap water in this iconic scene from 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.'
Roy (Rutger Hauer) laments that his memories "will be lost in time, like tears in rain" in the climatic scene from Ridley Scott's acclaimed science fiction film.
The 2004 Indian Ocean earthquake and tsunami remains one of the deadliest natural disasters in recorded history. The tsunamis killed an estimated 227,898 people in 14 countries. 'The Impossible' focuses on a lucky family who survived the ordeal.
A menacing great white shark circles Nancy (Blake Lively) as it waits for the tide to come in, which will submerge an outcrop of rock the hapless surfer's been using as sanctuary and force her to swim to shore.
A mysterious crewman abandons a sinking schooner in the middle of the ocean to be rescued by a married couple (Sam Neill and Nicole Kidman) sailing their yacht in the same waters. But the man they rescue and bring on board is not at all what he seems.
Numerous movies feature watershed scenes that involve rain, floods, surf, and even tap water, among other wonderfully wet moments. In fact, some of these takes have created such a splash that they are considered iconic. So, what are cinema's wettest movie moments?
Click through and soak in some of these waterlogged films.
Cinema's wettest movie moments
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Numerous movies feature watershed scenes that involve rain, floods, surf, and even tap water, among other wonderfully wet moments. In fact, some of these takes have created such a splash that they are considered iconic. So, what are cinema's wettest movie moments?
Click through and soak in some of these waterlogged films.