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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's epic features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a brave technician (the actor) free her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped ship to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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