🔗 Share this article

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|