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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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