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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns hired to sink the cruise ship the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his gang of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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