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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his flock through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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