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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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