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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to direct his group through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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