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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is among the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his followers through the upturned hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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