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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic 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 provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the rebellious tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from real events. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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