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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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