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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his group through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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