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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his group through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man struggling to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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