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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up 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 fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned hull to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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