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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns hired to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his followers through the inverted vessel to safety. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature masterclass in one-man show as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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