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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of memorable character actors portraying hired guns hired to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to guide his group through the flipped hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, derived from real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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