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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller chronicles a collection of memorable character actors portraying mercenaries employed to sink the passenger vessel Argonautica. Yet a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner the central location, develops to be a accomplished musician (the lead actor) who refuses to leave the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the Earth. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of constantly puffing marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an working-class man (Leonardo DiCaprio) are rescued by the director's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. You have to admire the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a death toll of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a ocean liner journeying from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's epic includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (the co-star) is stuck in their quarters in this intense precursor to disaster movies. Will the hero and a heroic engineer (the supporting player) free her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the fictional ship is played by the famous European vessel a real ship.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the murder suspects on board a Nile paddle steamer in this celebrity-filled Agatha Christie detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being shot, which reduces his persons of interest to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife seeking to heal from the trauma of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a horror film at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, moving goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a dilapidated "Scottish vessel" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the unconventional vein of his own previous work. Of course, the ship's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his disaster thriller a political dimension perspective in this tension-filled tale of explosives planted on a commercial vessel, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of this writer's book is among the peaks of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped hull to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a small business owner's partner with a useful background of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in solo performance as a individual battling to stay alive in the Indian Ocean after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a collision with an stray cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides sterling work in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure characters, as the captain of an American cargo ship commandeered by African raiders off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the pirate chief in this filmmaker's tense movie, based on true stories. Should the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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