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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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