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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in the director's dark UK production in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by true stories. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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