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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune hired to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his gang of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the inverted vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on real events. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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