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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a man struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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