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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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