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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his group through the upturned hull to security. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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