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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from 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 sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the subversive style of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, based on true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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