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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a man fighting to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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