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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the subversive style of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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