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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel the central location, 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 Roth competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the flipped ship to security. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, based on true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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