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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of memorable character actors playing hired guns hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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