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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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