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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors acting as mercenaries employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is Roth battling a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his followers through the inverted hull to security. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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