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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a group of memorable character actors acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the inverted ship to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from real events. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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