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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns hired to destroy the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his group through the flipped ship to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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