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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the inverted ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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