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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh British film in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person fighting 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 anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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