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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing mercenaries employed to sink the cruise ship Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Including the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The peak moment of the director's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with aquatic adaptations and a modified sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. All people is searching for mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. You have to admire the chutzpah of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is played by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being killed, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the trauma of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh British film in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the ship's British skipper and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled yarn of detonators planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the flipped hull to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a useful history of competitive swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational film debut as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, derived from real events. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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