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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner journeying from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the inverted vessel to security. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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