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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing supporting players portraying hired guns hired to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the flipped vessel to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on real events. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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