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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of memorable ensemble cast acting as hired guns hired to demolish the luxury liner the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who never steps off the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the antagonist and his gang of continuously smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a director who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is among the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the upturned hull to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a mature masterclass in solo performance as a man struggling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by another actor ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, based on real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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