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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players playing hired guns employed to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to guide his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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