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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of scene-stealing character actors portraying hired guns employed to demolish the passenger vessel Argonautica. But a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a warrior-esque nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the Earth. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of a famous most infamous disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the main setting is represented by the legendary historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill act as a partners seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to lead his group through the upturned ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star provides a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is damaged in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers outstanding acting in part of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from true stories. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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