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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors acting as soldiers of fortune employed to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the inverted ship to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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