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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star gives a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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