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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his group through the inverted hull to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man struggling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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