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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. The director's epic features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's book is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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