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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of scene-stealing character actors acting as hired guns hired to sink the cruise ship the main setting. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the ship. The highlight of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is Roth battling a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

Kevin Costner acts as a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his band of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are redeemed by the director's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film features Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an blast and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is embodied by the renowned French liner a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being stabbed, which narrows his potential killers to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors portray a husband and wife seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving items for an American industrialist, is tricked into using a dilapidated "type of boat" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive tradition of his own previous work. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in all senses of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his catastrophe film a political dimension angle in this nerve-shredding tale of bombs planted on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors play demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's novel is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his group through the flipped hull to security. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a practical history of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star delivers a mature brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding film debut as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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