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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's epic features 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 political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the flipped ship to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's suspense film, based on true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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