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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing character actors playing soldiers of fortune employed to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned ship to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on true stories. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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