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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth battling a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple seeking to heal from the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the upturned ship to safety. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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