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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The highlight of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the planet. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of among history's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Will the hero and a brave technician (the actor) save her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's book is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to guide his group through the flipped ship to rescue. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, inspired by true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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