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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to lead his group through the flipped vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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