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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing mercenaries employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned ship to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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