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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped vessel to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from real events. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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