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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the inverted hull to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual fighting to endure in the maritime location after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on true stories. When the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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