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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of memorable character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, derived from real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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