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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing mercenaries hired to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal British film in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the inverted ship to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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