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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable character actors portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual struggling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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