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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the upturned hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from real events. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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