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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple trying to get over the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted ship to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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