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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a group of attention-grabbing character actors acting as hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) 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, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted ship to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, derived from true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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