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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his group through the flipped vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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