🔗 Share this article

20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|