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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the inverted ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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