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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the main character fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, 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 motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision 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 shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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