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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of scene-stealing supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the flipped hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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