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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stuck in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his group through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, based on real events. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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