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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's book is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned ship to security. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature masterclass in solo performance as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from real events. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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