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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of memorable character actors playing hired guns employed to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. But a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like drifter with mutated appendages and a modified sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his band of chain-smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Can the hero and a brave technician (the actor) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the main setting is played by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the trauma of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a trip in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is basically a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An Englishman, shipping items for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the boat's UK commander and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of the author's literary work is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped hull to safety. the actress is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature masterclass in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by Somali pirates off the specific location. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's tense movie, derived from real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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