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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable character actors playing soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, based on real events. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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