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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a collection of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries employed to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal British film in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the inverted ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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