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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted vessel to safety. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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