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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual fighting to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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