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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players playing hired guns hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the inverted hull to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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