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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to sink the luxury liner the main setting. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. The director's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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