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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. The director's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a crash 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 senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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