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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes 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 aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his followers through the inverted vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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