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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of attention-grabbing character actors playing mercenaries employed to sink the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget science fiction adventure, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a director who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the protagonist's partner (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a partners trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover another actor from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh British film in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding story of detonators placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is part of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his followers through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, derived from actual incidents. When the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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