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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of attention-grabbing supporting players playing mercenaries hired to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, based on true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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