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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing character actors portraying mercenaries hired to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's book is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned hull to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a experienced brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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