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20. Ocean Terror (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest follows a group of scene-stealing ensemble cast playing mercenaries hired to demolish the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the main character battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this megabudget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the world. Everyone is searching for mythical Dryland while resisting the villain and his group of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are redeemed by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the chutzpah of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who deliver the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (the actress) is stuck in their room in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the legendary French liner Île de France.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie murder mystery. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! The director's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into hiring a poor condition "type of boat" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark Ealing comedy in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, serves up a heartbreaking study in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's novel is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is memorable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful experience of competitive swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The lead actor gives a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a person struggling to survive in the Indian Ocean after his yacht, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the raider leader in this filmmaker's thriller, derived from real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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