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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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