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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable ensemble cast acting as mercenaries employed to demolish the luxury liner Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel 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. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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