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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the legendary French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a run-down "type of boat" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his flock through the flipped hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person fighting to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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