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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of scene-stealing character actors acting as mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while resisting the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's spouse (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is part of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his group through the upturned ship to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a individual struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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