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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of memorable character actors acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, 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. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the inverted ship to safety. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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