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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. The director's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director'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. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his followers through the inverted hull to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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