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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a bunch of scene-stealing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's epic stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) save her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the famous historic ship Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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