🔗 Share this article

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the inverted hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|