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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to guide his group through the inverted vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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