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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players playing hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (the actor) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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