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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to Europe in 1933. The director's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a social commentary angle in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the flipped hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's suspense film, based on real events. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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