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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of memorable ensemble cast acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his group through the flipped hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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