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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this nerve-shredding story of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a man struggling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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