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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries employed to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. The director's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the inverted hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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