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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a collection of scene-stealing character actors acting as mercenaries employed to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stuck in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is essentially a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal British film in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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