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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off the villain and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from North America to Europe in 1933. The director's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into using a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a man struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's anxious 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 lead actor does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on actual incidents. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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