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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from North America to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his followers through the flipped hull to security. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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