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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a collection of attention-grabbing character actors portraying hired guns hired to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. The director's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his flock through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on real events. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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