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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a group of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the subversive style of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by real events. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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