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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's epic features a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a man struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, derived from actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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