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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players portraying mercenaries employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the inverted hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person fighting to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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