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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable ensemble cast portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) free her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on true stories. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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