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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to direct his followers through the flipped hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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