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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Including the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of the director's imaginative story is Roth competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a samurai-like drifter with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost science fiction adventure, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. All people is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of among history's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a director who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their quarters in this intense early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) save her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is represented by the legendary historic ship Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's dark British film in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of detonators placed on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's literary work is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the inverted vessel to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a man fighting to endure in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a impact with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star delivers excellent performance in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an American cargo ship commandeered by Somali pirates off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), providing a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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