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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's futuristic scarefest details a bunch of scene-stealing character actors acting as soldiers of fortune employed to sink the luxury liner a fictional ship. However a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Including the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A infant, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the lead actor) who never steps off the ship. The climax of this filmmaker's fantastical tale is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner portrays a samurai-like drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a distant time where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the planet. All people is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting the villain and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known disasters. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, flamenco dancers and Nazi eugenicists rub shoulders on a ocean liner journeying from Latin America to the Old World in the pre-war era. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and Simone Signoret, as a aristocratic rebel, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's partner (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her before the ship sinks? Fun fact: the main setting is embodied by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Bette Davis are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. The main star, as Hercule Poirot, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which whittles down his persons of interest to a smaller group. Much more enjoyable than the modern adaptation.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill portray a partners trying to get over the grief of their child's passing by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover Billy Zane from a sinking schooner. Poor decision! The director's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an high-quality one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, shipping goods for an American industrialist, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's harsh British film in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and staff trick the main characters for a journey, in multiple interpretations of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

The director gives his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this tension-filled story of bombs planted on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the cruise director, provides a heartbreaking depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This film version of this writer's literary work is one of the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a tsunami, and it's up to the lead character to direct his followers through the flipped vessel to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a person battling to endure in the maritime location after his yacht, the main setting, is damaged in a impact with an lost cargo box. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in part of his everyman-in-crisis roles, as the captain of an US merchant vessel seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), making a outstanding first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's tense movie, inspired by real events. When the last scene fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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