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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, based on true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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