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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a director who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the rebellious style of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by true stories. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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