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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players playing hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the upturned hull to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star gives a mature masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting 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 has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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