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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled story of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, based on true stories. If the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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