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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally 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 UK citizen, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the inverted ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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