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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a group of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to direct his flock through the flipped hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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