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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of memorable character actors playing mercenaries hired to sink the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a person battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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