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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a collection of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star acts as a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from North America to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Can the main character and a brave technician (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the subversive style of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

Richard Lester provides his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled yarn of explosives planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on real events. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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