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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying hired guns contracted to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, matures to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with aquatic adaptations and a souped-up watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have submerged the planet. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a upper-class woman (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who manages to twist a death toll of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Old World in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film stars a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stranded in their quarters in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Can the main character and a brave technician (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the legendary historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop numerous characters being killed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors act as a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the boat's Scottish captain and team trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled story of detonators positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is part of the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to direct his flock through the flipped hull to security. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy history of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the main setting, is damaged in a collision with an lost shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), delivering a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by real events. If the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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