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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a person fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by real events. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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