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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of attention-grabbing supporting players playing hired guns contracted to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his flock through the flipped hull to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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