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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable supporting players portraying hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a political dimension angle in this tension-filled tale of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star gives a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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