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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors acting as mercenaries hired to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to direct his group through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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