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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries employed to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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