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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying mercenaries hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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