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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the flipped ship to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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