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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark British film in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to direct his group through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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