Best Ship movies of 1970s

Actors : Lorraine Gary, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss, Robert Shaw,
Directors : Steven Spielberg,

A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers, until a local sheriff teams up with a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.

Actors : Mickey Rooney, Kelly Reno, Teri Garr, Clarence Muse,
Directors : Carroll Ballard,

While traveling with his father, young Alec becomes fascinated by a mysterious Arabian stallion who is brought on board and stabled in the ship he is sailing on. When it tragically sinks ...

Actors : Gene Hackman, Ernest Borgnine, Red Buttons, Shelley Winters,

A group of passengers struggle to survive and escape when their ocean liner completely capsizes at sea.

Actors : Mia Farrow, Peter Ustinov, Jane Birkin, Simon MacCorkindale,
Directors : John Guillermin,

As Hercule Poirot enjoys a luxurious cruise down the Nile, a newlywed heiress is found murdered on board. Can Poirot identify the killer before the ship reaches the end of its journey?

Actors : Pierre Clémenti, Sami Frey, Anna Prucnal, Carole Laure,
Directors : Dusan Makavejev,

The intercut story of two women: a nearly-mute beauty queen who descends into withdrawal and madness, and another who captains a ship laden with candy and sugar, luring men and boys aboard ...

Actors : Joseph Cotten, Lee Grant, Jack Lemmon, Olivia de Havilland,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

Art thieves hijack a 747, hit fog and crash into the ocean, trapping them and the passengers under 100 feet of water.

Actors : Richard Harris, Anthony Hopkins, Omar Sharif, David Hemmings,
Directors : Richard Lester,

A blackmailer demands a huge ransom in exchange for information on how to disarm the seven bombs he placed aboard the transatlantic liner Britannic.

Actors : Jason Robards, Anne Archer, David Selby, Richard Jordan,
Directors : Jerry Jameson,

To obtain a supply of a rare mineral, a ship raising operation is conducted for the only known source, the Titanic.

Actors : Angela Punch McGregor, David Warner, Michael Caine, Frank Middlemass,
Directors : Michael Ritchie,

In New York, the journalist Blair Maynard convinces his editor to travel to Florida to investigate the mysterious disappearance of ships in the Bermuda's Triangle area. Maynard is divorced ...

Actors : Doug McClure, John McEnery, Susan Penhaligon, Keith Barron,
Directors : Kevin Connor,

During World War I, a German U-boat sinks a British ship and takes the survivors on board. After it takes a wrong turn, the submarine takes them to the unknown land of Caprona, where they ...

Actors : Oskar Werner, Faye Dunaway, Sam Wanamaker, Lee Grant,
Directors : Stuart Rosenberg,

The tragic 1939 voyage of SS St. Louis carrying hundreds of German Jewish refugees from Nazi Germany that seemingly no nation is willing to save from certain doom.

Actors : Sally Ann Howes, Nick Mancuso, Richard Crenna, George Kennedy,
Directors : Alvin Rakoff,

A mysterious ghostly freighter rams and sinks a modern day cruise ship whose survivors climb aboard the freighter and discover that it is a WW2 Nazi torture vessel.

Actors : Telly Savalas, Peter Boyle, Sally Field, Michael Caine,
Directors : Irwin Allen,

Adventurers return to the overturned ship, seeking a fortune.

Actors : Roger Moore, David Niven, Gregory Peck, Trevor Howard,
Directors : Andrew V. McLaglen,

A true World War II story: the British must attack a German ship, but it's safe, in neutral Goa. So they send civilians, ex-soldiers about sixty-years-old.

Actors : Peter Boyle, Robert Shaw, Geneviève Bujold, James Earl Jones,
Directors : James Goldstone,

A pirate and a hot-tempered noblewoman join forces to protect Jamaica from a tyrant.

Actors : Siân Phillips, Philippe Noiret, Horst Janson, Peter O'Toole,
Directors : Peter Yates,

A lone survivor from a British naval ship is obsessed with getting revenge on a German U-boat crew that massacred his shipmates in the water.

Actors : Jolanta Lothe, Stanislaw Tym, Wanda Stanislawska-Lothe, Jerzy Dobrowolski,
Directors : Marek Piwowski,

A stowaway on a cruise ship is mistaken for an entertainment director.

Actors : Gene Kelly, Evel Knievel, Red Buttons, Lauren Hutton,
Directors : Gordon Douglas,

Motorcycle stuntman Evel Knievel is offered a fortune to perform in Mexico. What Evel doesn't know is that they're planning to kill him and use his body to ship cocaine into the U.S. His ...

Actors : Shashi Kapoor, Rakhee Gulzar, Shatrughan Sinha, Amitabh Bachchan,
Directors : Yash Chopra,

Inspired by a true mining tragedy the film is about people from all walks of life showing courage and character to fight the forces of nature.

Actors : Jack Hawkins, Anthony Hopkins, Robert Morley, Nathalie Delon,
Directors : Etienne Périer,

In a vein similar to James Bond movies, British Agent Philip Calvert is on a mission to determine the whereabouts of a ship that disappeared near the coast of Scotland.