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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a person fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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