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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries employed to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. But a giant mutant octopus has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a jewel thief.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth competing in a piano duel with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately shown as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget science fiction adventure, set in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's notorious disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a casualties of numerous victims into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship sailing from North America to Europe in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her final role, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (the actor) save her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned European vessel Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being stabbed, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife trying to get over the trauma of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a trip in the Pacific, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, moving furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is tricked into employing a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark British film in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in every meaning of the word.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is part of the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his flock through the upturned vessel to rescue. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star gives a late-career masterclass in solo performance as a individual struggling to endure in the specific sea after his personal boat, the fictional ship, is impaired in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to record.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding film debut as the raider leader in the director's thriller, derived from real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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