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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players playing hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner traveling from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is tricked into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled yarn of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his group through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a individual fighting to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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