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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of memorable supporting players acting as soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the passenger vessel the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the ocean-going ship SS Virginian, develops to be a gifted pianist (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the boat. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a modified watercraft in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where disappearing glaciers have submerged the Earth. Everyone is searching for fabled solid ground while resisting the antagonist and his band of constantly puffing marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a wealthy lady (Kate Winslet) and an free-spirited artist (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the chutzpah of a director who artfully converts a fatalities of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of emancipation.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from Mexico to the Old World in 1933. This filmmaker's sweeping drama stars Vivien Leigh, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who provide the movie with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is torn asunder in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their room in this gripping precursor to disaster movies. Will the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the main setting is represented by the renowned French liner an actual ocean liner.

14. Murder on the Nile (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, fails to stop several passengers being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they rescue another actor from a damaged vessel. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An British man, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the subversive vein of his own previous work. Of course, the boat's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this nerve-shredding story of bombs positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Which wire to cut? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Ocean Disaster (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's novel is among the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The central vessel is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the job of the lead character to direct his followers through the upturned vessel to security. a supporting player is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a useful background of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor provides a mature masterclass in one-man show as a person battling to endure in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how extremely demanding it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The lead actor delivers excellent performance in part of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the commander of an US merchant vessel seized by maritime criminals off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("Now I'm in charge"), making a outstanding initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in the director's thriller, based on true stories. When the last scene fails to move you, you're emotionally detached.

7. Triangle (2009)

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