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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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