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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns contracted to sink the luxury liner the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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