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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the inverted ship to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's suspense film, derived from true stories. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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