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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension angle in this tension-filled tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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