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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of memorable character actors acting as soldiers of fortune employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple 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 a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned ship to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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