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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable supporting players playing hired guns employed to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stuck in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the flipped hull to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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