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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns hired to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. Everyone is seeking fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. The director's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they save Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an US businessman, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive style of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's British skipper and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled tale of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted ship to safety. the actress is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a person fighting to endure in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on actual incidents. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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