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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the inverted ship to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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