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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stranded in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by real events. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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