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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors playing soldiers of fortune hired to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship journeying from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this tension-filled story of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped ship to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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