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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the planet. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an US businessman, is tricked into using a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the inverted ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, 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 main star does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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