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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a director who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his group through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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