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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding story of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned hull to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from real events. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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