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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest chronicles a group of memorable ensemble cast portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the villain and his band of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their cabin in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. a supporting player is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational film debut as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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