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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his group through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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