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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast portraying mercenaries contracted to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims 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 1933. The director's epic stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding story of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his flock through the upturned ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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