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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying mercenaries hired to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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