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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns employed to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a touching depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer'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 up to the lead character to direct his group through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a man fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by true stories. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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