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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his gang of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding story of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted hull to security. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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