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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players playing mercenaries hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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