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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's partner (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled story of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his group through the upturned ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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