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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel journeying from North America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (the supporting player) free her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent numerous characters being shot, which narrows his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh British film in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's book is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to direct his group through the inverted vessel to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a man fighting to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, based on true stories. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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