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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of scene-stealing supporting players portraying soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) free her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his group through the flipped hull to security. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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