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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of memorable supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from real events. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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