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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a group of memorable character actors portraying mercenaries employed to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a man battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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