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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which narrows his persons of interest 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 grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal UK production in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted ship to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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