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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns employed to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! 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 UK citizen, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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