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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his group through the upturned ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a man fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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