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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable character actors acting as mercenaries employed to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his group through the upturned ship to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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