🔗 Share this article

20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a collection of memorable ensemble cast playing mercenaries hired to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his group through the inverted hull to security. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|