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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, based on true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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