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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the inverted ship to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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