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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie 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 (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned ship to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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