Best Ship movies of 1980s

Actors : Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann, Hubertus Bengsch, Jürgen Prochnow,
Directors : Wolfgang Petersen,

The claustrophobic world of a WWII German U-boat; boredom, filth, and sheer terror.

Actors : Roger Moore, Carole Bouquet, Topol, Lynn-Holly Johnson,
Directors : John Glen,

Agent 007 is assigned to hunt for a lost British encryption device and prevent it from falling into enemy hands.

Actors : Andy Romano, Samantha Mathis, Christian Slater, Anthony Lucero,
Directors : Allan Moyle,

Mark runs a pirate radio station and causes an uproar when he speaks his mind and enthralls fellow teens.

Actors : Billy Zane, Sam Neill, Nicole Kidman, Rod Mullinar,
Directors : Phillip Noyce,

After a tragedy, John Ingram and his wife Rae spend some time isolated at sea when they come across a stranger who has abandoned a sinking ship.

Actors : Daniel Stern, Richard Crenna, Amanda Pays, Peter Weller,
Directors : George P. Cosmatos,

An American deep-sea mining colony stumbles upon a sunken Soviet vessel hiding a horrific secret.

Actors : Robert Redford, Alan Arkin, Lena Olin, Tomas Milian,
Directors : Sydney Pollack,

Cuba, December 1958: The professional gambler Jack visits Havana to organize a big Poker game. On the ship he meets Roberta and falls in love with her. Shortly after they arrive in Cuba, ...

Actors : Edward Fox, Mel Gibson, Laurence Olivier, Anthony Hopkins,
Directors : Roger Donaldson,

Fed up with their Captain's harsh discipline, a sailing ship's crew decides to take action.

Actors : Tommy Chong, Peter Boyle, Graham Chapman, Cheech Marin,
Directors : Mel Damski,

Yellowbeard, a pirate's pirate, is allowed to escape from prison to lead the authorities to his treasure. He finds that his wife neglected to tell him that he now has a son, 20, and shame ...

Actors : Billy Zane, Burt Young, Billy Bob Thornton, Adam Sandler,
Directors : Valerie Breiman,

A struggling young comedian takes a menial job on a cruise ship where he hopes for his big chance to make it in the world of cruise ship comedy.

Actors : Freddie Jones, Victor Poletti, Barbara Jefford, Peter Cellier,
Directors : Federico Fellini,

In 1914, a luxury ship leaves Italy in order to scatter the ashes of a famous opera singer. A lovable bumbling journalist chronicles the voyage and meets the singer's many eccentric friends and admirers.

Actors : Bill Kerr, Christopher Atkins, Ted Hamilton, Kristy McNichol,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

The crew of a large ship sail the high seas encountering other pirates from other ships. The boy from the ship ends up having to save his girlfriend who is kidnapped by a bunch of other pirates.

Actors : Damien Thomas, Walter Matthau, Cris Campion, Olu Jacobs,
Directors : Roman Polanski,

The adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.

Actors : Lance Henriksen, Steve Marachuk, Ricky Paull Goldin, Tricia O'Neil,

A scuba diving instructor, her biochemist boyfriend, and her police chief ex-husband try to link a series of bizarre deaths to a mutant strain of piranha fish whose lair is a sunken freighter ship off a Caribbean island resort.

Actors : Reb Brown, John Phillip Law, Cameron Mitchell, James Ryan,

A pilot is the only hope to stop the mutiny of a spacecraft by its security crew, who plot to sell the crew of the ship into slavery.

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 : Eileen Brennan, David Seaman, Cory Crow, Tami Erin,
Directors : Ken Annakin,

After her father's ship is carried off by a sudden storm, the spunky Pippi Longstocking is stranded with her horse, Alfonso, and monkey, Mr. Nilsson, and takes up residence in the old ...

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 : Edward Albert, Bernard Behrens, Ray Walston, Erin Moran,
Directors : Bruce D. Clark,

SciFi suspense thriller in which a rescue space ship crew meets up with horrors projected by their own imaginations.

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 : 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.