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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the inverted hull to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, 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 provides excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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