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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to sink the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted hull to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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