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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to sink the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are redeemed by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the legendary French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the ocean, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, moving furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's harsh British film in the rebellious tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's literary work is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a handy background of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a impact with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an commercial transport seized by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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