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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a person struggling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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