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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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