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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned 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 heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in one-man show as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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