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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a collection of memorable supporting players playing mercenaries hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from North America to Europe in 1933. The director's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous historic ship 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 celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark UK production in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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