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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players portraying mercenaries contracted to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this intense early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his flock through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, derived from real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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