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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned hull to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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