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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is fundamentally 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 UK citizen, transporting items for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a person battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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