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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned hull to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a man battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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