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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of memorable supporting players portraying mercenaries hired to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the flipped ship to safety. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by real events. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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