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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of memorable ensemble cast portraying hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. The director's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's suspense film is essentially a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his group through the flipped vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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