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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a group of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a modified trimaran in this big-budget science fiction adventure, taking place in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's breathtaking depiction of a famous notorious tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their room in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will the main character and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The lead actor, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal British film in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs positioned on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, provides a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to safety. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a practical experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is harmed in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's suspense film, based on true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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