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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of memorable character actors portraying hired guns hired to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character battling a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his followers through the inverted hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, based on real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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