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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a man struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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