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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an US businessman, is tricked into using a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on true stories. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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