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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of memorable character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this intense proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a partners trying to get over the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into employing a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's UK commander and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his flock through the flipped hull to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a man battling to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. When the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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