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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a collection of memorable supporting players playing mercenaries employed to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the upturned hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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