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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an US businessman, is manipulated into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a man struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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