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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a man fighting to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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