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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his group through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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