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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from North America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a brave technician (the actor) free her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his flock through the flipped ship to security. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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