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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of memorable character actors acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his group through the inverted hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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