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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune employed to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner traveling from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, derived from real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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