Stephen Sommers' science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of memorable ensemble cast acting as soldiers of fortune employed to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a diamond criminal.
A newborn, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, matures to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a smug bastard.
The main star acts as a samurai-like nomad with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget futuristic thriller, taking place in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have inundated the Earth. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his band of chain-smoking raiders.
An extended period of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's well-known disasters. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who manages to twist a casualties of over a thousand into an heartening tale of emancipation.
Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists mingle on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's epic stars a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who deliver the motion picture with its dramatic punch.
The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's partner (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the actor) rescue her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is represented by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.
Bette Davis are including the killing culprits on board a Nile paddle steamer in this all-star crime novelist murder mystery. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being stabbed, which narrows his persons of interest to a limited selection. Significantly better than the recent version.
Sam Neill portray a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a spin in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Big mistake! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that made her famous.
An Englishman, transporting items for an American industrialist, is deceived into employing a poor condition "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal UK production in the rebellious style of his own earlier film. Naturally, the boat's British skipper and staff trick the main characters for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the word.
Richard Lester provides his catastrophe film a political dimension tilt in this nerve-shredding story of explosives positioned on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a emotional portrayal in humorous tragedy.
This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his flock through the inverted hull to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful experience of sports participation.
Robert Redford provides a mature brilliant acting in solo performance as a man battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray transport unit. It's stressful enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to film.
The lead actor provides excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), providing a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in the director's suspense film, derived from real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.
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