🔗 Share this article

20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from true stories. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|