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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by real events. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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