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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a group of memorable supporting players playing soldiers of fortune contracted to sink the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's imaginative story is the protagonist battling a musical showdown with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a modified trimaran in this megabudget science fiction adventure, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the Earth. The entire population is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a director who successfully transforms a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who deliver the film with its emotional wallop.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Will Stack and a brave technician (the actor) save her before the ship sinks? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent numerous characters being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill portray a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue another actor from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a killers-on-the-loose story at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving items for an US businessman, is tricked into employing a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director imparts his suspense story a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding yarn of bombs planted on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the zenith 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 lead his flock through the flipped hull to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a man battling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to view, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the specific location. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a outstanding film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on actual incidents. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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