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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors portraying hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners seeking to heal 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 sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the flipped hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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