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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his group through the inverted ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a person fighting to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, inspired by true stories. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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