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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable supporting players portraying mercenaries hired to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped hull to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a person battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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