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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, based on real events. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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