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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? 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 cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the flipped vessel to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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