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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a group of scene-stealing character actors playing hired guns contracted to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. However a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the vessel. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a modified watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the actress) is trapped in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) rescue her prior to the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the famous French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this ensemble cast mystery writer whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a manageable number. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a married couple attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! The director's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh UK production in the subversive tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of the author's book is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a experienced masterclass in one-man show as a person fighting to survive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a impact with an stray transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a sensational first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, derived from true stories. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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