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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star gives a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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