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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is basically a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal British film in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the inverted hull to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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