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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on actual incidents. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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