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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped ship to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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