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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. The director's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings play bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his followers through the flipped vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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