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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his followers through the flipped vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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