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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a bunch of memorable supporting players portraying hired guns contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational film debut as the raider leader in the director's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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