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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is trapped in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped hull to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, 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 film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, based on real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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