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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable ensemble cast portraying hired guns hired to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to Europe in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her prior to the ship sinks? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! The director's thriller is basically a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving furniture for an American industrialist, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to guide his flock through the inverted hull to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a man struggling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks provides sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on actual incidents. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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