🔗 Share this article

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped hull to security. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|