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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players acting as mercenaries hired to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired drifter with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) free her ahead of the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is played by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings play explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his group through the flipped ship to rescue. Shelley Winters is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray shipping container. It's anxious enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers sterling work in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, inspired by real events. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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