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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of memorable character actors acting as soldiers of fortune hired to destroy the luxury liner a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character fighting a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the planet. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by the director's breathtaking depiction of among history's most infamous catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship journeying from Mexico to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a legendary actress, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will the hero and a brave technician (Woody Strode) save her before the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is represented by the legendary European vessel Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are including the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which narrows his suspects to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in Alexander Mackendrick's harsh UK production in the rebellious style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and crew trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester gives his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of detonators positioned on a passenger ship, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's book is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his group through the inverted vessel to safety. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in one-man show as a man battling to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a impact with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a remarkable first movie role as the criminal boss in the director's suspense film, inspired by actual incidents. Should the concluding moment doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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