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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller details a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing hired guns contracted to demolish the cruise ship a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the actor) are redeemed by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding tale of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his group through the inverted vessel to security. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford provides a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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