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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a collection of attention-grabbing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to lead his group through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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