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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of memorable ensemble cast portraying hired guns employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his followers through the upturned ship to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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