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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of memorable supporting players playing hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his group through the flipped hull to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man struggling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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