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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of memorable character actors acting as soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is played 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 mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an US businessman, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person battling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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