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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a collection of memorable character actors portraying hired guns 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 jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's imaginative story is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, rather unfairly portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a modified watercraft in this big-budget futuristic thriller, set in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. The entire population is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his band of continuously smoking raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by the director's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. The director's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their cabin in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her ahead of the boat submerges? Interesting note: the main setting is embodied by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled crime novelist whodunit. The lead actor, as the famous detective, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which reduces his suspects to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Costly error! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a slasher movie at sea, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and team trick the main characters for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from actual incidents. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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