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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his group through the inverted ship to security. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational film debut as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, based on actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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