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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the upturned vessel to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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