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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped ship to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, based on real events. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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