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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing character actors acting as mercenaries hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel the central location, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this high-cost science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the famous French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors play a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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