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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a group of memorable character actors acting as mercenaries employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his group through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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