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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' sci-fi horror pulp details a group of scene-stealing supporting players playing hired guns hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his group of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's epic stars a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping early catastrophe film. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the renowned historic ship Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's literary work is one of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the flipped vessel to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced brilliant acting in one-man show as a person struggling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision 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 elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor delivers sterling work in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on real events. If the last scene fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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