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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, inspired by true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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