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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns employed to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his group through the inverted vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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