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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors acting as soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the inverted hull to safety. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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