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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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