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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players portraying hired guns hired to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's epic features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to direct his followers through the flipped hull to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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