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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a bunch of attention-grabbing ensemble cast portraying soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Among the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, deserted on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character fighting a piano duel with a jazz legend, somewhat unjustly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor plays a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have submerged the world. Everyone is hunting for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his group of continuously smoking raiders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a posh chick (the actress) and an free-spirited artist (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of a famous notorious catastrophes. You have to admire the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Commoners, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a ocean liner sailing from Latin America to Europe in the pre-war era. Stanley Kramer's epic features a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's Oskar Werner, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its emotional wallop.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an blast and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stranded in their quarters in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Will Stack and a heroic engineer (the actor) save her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the ocean, where they save another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's thriller is basically a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, moving items for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a run-down "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the subversive tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the vessel's British skipper and staff deceive the inexperienced passengers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his suspense story a political dimension perspective in this nerve-shredding yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching portrayal in sadly funny despair.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of the author's novel is one of the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tsunami, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his followers through the inverted hull to security. a supporting player is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a practical history of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man fighting to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does sterling work in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in the director's tense movie, based on actual incidents. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Triangle (2009)

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