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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the villain and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a death toll of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. The director's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's UK commander and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the inverted vessel to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a mature exemplary performance in solo performance as a man fighting to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's suspense film, inspired by true stories. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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