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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a brave technician (the actor) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his group through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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