🔗 Share this article

20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) save her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh British film in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational film debut as the raider leader in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|