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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying hired guns hired to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from North America to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is trapped in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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