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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns hired to sink the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. 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 flipped ship to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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