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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players portraying hired guns hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is Roth battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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