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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque wanderer with webbed feet and a modified trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) free her prior to the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the famous French liner a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's dark UK production in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled yarn of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped vessel to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's anxious enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by true stories. If the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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