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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious style of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled tale of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the inverted vessel to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's thriller, derived from true stories. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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