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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing character actors playing mercenaries contracted to destroy the cruise ship a fictional ship. However a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired wanderer with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the world. All people is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a casualties of numerous victims into an heartening narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to Europe in 1933. The director's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an detonation and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which whittles down his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors act as a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the Pacific, where they recover another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a political dimension angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching study in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is part of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his flock through the flipped ship to security. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a practical background of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to survive in the specific sea after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, derived from true stories. Should the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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