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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a commercial vessel sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his followers through the inverted hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an lost transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's suspense film, inspired by real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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