🔗 Share this article

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the flipped hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|