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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying hired guns employed to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his group through the inverted ship to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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