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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller details a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's epic includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is one of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star delivers a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable film debut as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, based on real events. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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