🔗 Share this article

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|