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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a collection of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his followers through the inverted hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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