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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive style of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in solo performance as a person struggling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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