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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries employed to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight 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 lead actor plays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his followers through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a person struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on true stories. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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