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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a man struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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