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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns employed to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, 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 provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from true stories. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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