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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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