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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his group through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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