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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous 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 mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to lead his flock through the inverted ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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