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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing supporting players portraying hired guns employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, 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 emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) free her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned ship to security. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a man fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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