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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship journeying from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in the director's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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