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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the famous historic ship Île de France.

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 famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the inverted ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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