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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing character actors acting as mercenaries employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled tale of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his group through the upturned hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by real events. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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