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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a collection of memorable ensemble cast portraying hired guns hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of the director's imaginative story is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. The director's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark UK production in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the inverted vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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