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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an American industrialist, is tricked into employing a run-down "type of boat" in the director's harsh UK production in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a man fighting to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, based on actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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