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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the inverted vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, based on true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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