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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted ship to security. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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