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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's harsh Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the flipped vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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