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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of attention-grabbing character actors portraying hired guns hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. Everyone is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is stuck in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is one of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped hull to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in one of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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