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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of memorable supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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