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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable character actors acting as hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into using a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the upturned vessel to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star gives a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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