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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable character actors playing hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stranded in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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