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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune employed to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man fighting to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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