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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable character actors acting as soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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