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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a group of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns employed to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the main character fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the planet. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, provides a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the inverted ship to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. Should the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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