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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled story of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped ship to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor 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. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, derived from real events. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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