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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a group of memorable character actors playing mercenaries hired to sink the luxury liner the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's stressful 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 main star delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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