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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable ensemble cast acting as mercenaries contracted to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a brave technician (the actor) save her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the ship's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in one-man show as a individual battling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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