🔗 Share this article

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled story of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the upturned hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|