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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune employed to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a modified sailing vessel in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are rescued by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie detective story. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted hull to rescue. Shelley Winters is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational film debut as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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