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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the upturned hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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