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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his followers through the upturned ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by real events. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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