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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by true stories. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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