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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned ship to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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