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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable supporting players playing mercenaries hired to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the flipped hull to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from real events. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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