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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his group through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man struggling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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