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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned vessel to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks 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. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by real events. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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