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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as hired guns employed to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the main setting is played by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an US businessman, is deceived into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; another actor, as the cruise director, delivers a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career masterclass in one-man show as a person fighting to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by real events. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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