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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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