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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a bunch of memorable supporting players acting as mercenaries hired to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has beaten them to it! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the ocean-going ship a fictional ship, matures to be a gifted pianist (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the protagonist fighting a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a enhanced watercraft in this high-cost futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off Dennis Hopper and his gang of chain-smoking pirates.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's notorious catastrophes. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a casualties of 1,500 into an heartening narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from North America to the Continent in the pre-war era. The director's large-scale film includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the co-star) is stuck in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) rescue her ahead of the vessel goes down? Curious detail: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop numerous characters being shot, which narrows his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners seeking to heal from the pain of their offspring's demise by sailing their boat for a trip in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Costly error! The director's tense movie is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's British skipper and team trick the main characters for a trip, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Two lead actors portray bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a emotional depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's literary work is part of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his group through the upturned ship to security. the actress is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a practical experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a mature brilliant acting in one-man show as a man struggling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an lost transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so it's difficult to comprehend how physically gruelling it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor provides excellent performance in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational first movie role as the pirate chief in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on actual incidents. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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