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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing character actors acting as mercenaries hired to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an inspiring story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark UK production in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching study in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his flock through the flipped ship to security. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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