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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller details a group of attention-grabbing character actors portraying mercenaries contracted to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Including the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who remains aboard the ship. The peak moment of the director's fantastical tale is the main character battling a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like wanderer with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, set in a later era where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous notorious disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a cinematic artist who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and German ideologists interact on a passenger ship journeying from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's a co-star, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) save her ahead of the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the Claridon is played by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast crime novelist murder mystery. The lead actor, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! This filmmaker's tense movie is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal British film in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a ride, in all senses of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a political dimension tilt in this tension-filled yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors act as explosive technicians; a supporting player, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is one of the zenith of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of the main protagonist to direct his group through the upturned vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy background of sports participation.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a late-career brilliant acting in solo performance as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is harmed in a collision with an errant shipping container. It's nerve-wracking enough to observe, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in the director's thriller, based on true stories. When the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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