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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of scene-stealing supporting players portraying hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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