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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of memorable supporting players acting as hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, abandoned on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening tale of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's tense movie is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director'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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