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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque nomad with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast crime novelist detective story. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple seeking to heal from the pain 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 thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the upturned ship to security. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a individual fighting to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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