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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a group of memorable character actors acting as mercenaries contracted to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the inverted ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man battling to endure in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from real events. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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