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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of attention-grabbing character actors playing hired guns employed to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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