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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries hired to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in the interwar period. The director's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stranded in their room in this intense early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to guide his group through the flipped ship to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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