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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his flock through the upturned vessel to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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