Ten Best: Deep Sea Thrillers

To mark the release of deep sea thriller Pressure, out now on DVD/download starring Danny Huston, Matthew Goode, Joe Cole, Alan McKenna and Daisy Lowe, we take a look at the best deep sea thrillers of all time.

THE HUNT FOR RED OCTOBER (1990)

Starring: Sean Connery, Alec Baldwin, Scott Glenn
Director: John McTiernan

DAS BOOT (1981)

Starring: Jürgen Prochnow, Herbert Grönemeyer, Klaus Wennemann
Director: Wolfgang Petersen

20,000 LEAGUES UNDER THE SEA (1954)

Starring: Kirk Douglas, James Mason, Paul Lukas, Peter Lorre
Director: Richard Fleischer

JAWS (1975)

Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss
Director: Steven Spielberg

THE ABYSS (1989)

Starring: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio and Michael Biehn
Director: James Cameron

THE BIG BLUE (1988)

Starring: Jean-Marc Barr, Jean Reno, Rosanna Arquette, Paul Shenar.
Director: Luc Besson

PRESSURE (2015)

Starring: Danny Huston, Matthew Goode, Joe Cole, Alan McKenna and Daisy Lowe
Director: Ron Scalpello

SPHERE (1998)

Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone, Samuel L. Jackson
Director: Barry Levinson

THE LIFE AQUATIC WITH STEVE ZISSOU (2004)

Starring: Bill Murray, Owen Wilson, Anjelica Huston
Director: Wes Anderson

THE PERFECT STORM (2000)

Starring: George Clooney, Mark Wahlberg, Diane Lane
Director: Wolfgang Petersen