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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark British film in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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