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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable supporting players portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the vessel goes down? 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 murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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