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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying mercenaries hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding tale of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his flock through the inverted vessel to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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