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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a collection of scene-stealing supporting players portraying mercenaries contracted to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, develops to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the vessel. The peak moment of the director's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. Everyone is searching for legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a death toll of 1,500 into an heartening tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a commercial vessel journeying from Latin America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an detonation and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a brave technician (the actor) save her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast mystery writer murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being killed, which narrows his potential killers to a limited selection. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Two lead actors act as a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the ocean, where they rescue a co-star from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an US businessman, is deceived into using a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the subversive style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of the author's novel is among the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the main protagonist to lead his group through the upturned hull to safety. a supporting player is memorable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a late-career masterclass in single character portrayal as a individual struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a remarkable initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, based on true stories. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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