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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from North America to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the flipped ship to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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