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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to safety. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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