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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a collection of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. The director's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled tale of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual battling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on real events. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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