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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal British film in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned ship to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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