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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable character actors playing hired guns contracted to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned hull to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows 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 among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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