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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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