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20. Abyssal Attack (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. All people is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off the antagonist and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of a famous most infamous catastrophes. It's impossible not to respect the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from Mexico to Europe in 1933. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the actor) free her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the boat's UK commander and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this tension-filled tale of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to lead his group through the flipped vessel to security. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to stay alive in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on real events. Should the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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