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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a collection of memorable character actors portraying hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned ship to safety. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a man struggling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, derived from real events. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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