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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable ensemble cast portraying mercenaries employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the flipped vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, based on real events. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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