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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast acting as mercenaries hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget science fiction adventure, located in a later era where disappearing glaciers have flooded the planet. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) free her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's dark Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the ship's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a state-of-the-nation perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the inverted vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a impact with an stray shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does sterling work in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on real events. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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