Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a group of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying hired guns hired to destroy the cruise ship the main setting. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the potential cephalopod fodder are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.
A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the ship. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is the main character battling a piano duel with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly shown as a smug bastard.
The main star portrays a fighter-inspired wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a future where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the world. Everyone is seeking mythical Dryland while fighting off the villain and his band of chain-smoking pirates.
Two hours of tiresome canoodling 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 well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a director who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an emotionally uplifting tale of freedom.
Commoners, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Latin America to the Old World in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a political noblewoman, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.
The central vessel is torn asunder in an blast and Robert Stack's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her before the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is represented by the famous European vessel Île de France.
Two legendary actresses are among the homicide possibilities on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, cannot prevent several passengers being killed, which reduces his potential killers to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the 2022 remake.
Sam Neill portray a partners attempting to recover from the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the sea, where they save a co-star from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.
An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in Alexander Mackendrick's dark British film in the unconventional tradition of his own previous work. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the expression.
This filmmaker imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled tale of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris play demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching depiction in tragicomic desperation.
This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the zenith of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the inverted hull to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.
Robert Redford delivers a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a man struggling to stay alive in the maritime location after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to view, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
The main star does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel hijacked by African raiders off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's thriller, based on actual incidents. If the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're emotionally detached.
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