🔗 Share this article

20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players playing hired guns hired to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of bombs placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a man fighting to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on true stories. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

{Freak weather conditions|