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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying mercenaries employed to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the upturned ship to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking 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 does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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