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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico 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 a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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