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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest chronicles a collection of memorable character actors acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. However a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the likely victims are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, deserted on the transatlantic liner SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The climax of the director's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a piano duel with Jelly Roll Morton, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a warrior-esque wanderer with mutated appendages and a souped-up watercraft in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. The entire population is hunting for mythical Dryland while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of love story development between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are rescued by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of a famous well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who artfully converts a casualties of over a thousand into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Latin America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama features Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the vessel's physician, and a talented performer, as a political noblewoman, who supply the motion picture with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and Robert Stack's wife (the actress) is stranded in their cabin in this gripping early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the boat submerges? Curious detail: the main setting is embodied by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are part of the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast mystery writer detective story. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, is unable to halt half the cast being killed, which reduces his suspects to a limited selection. Much more enjoyable than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a married couple trying to get over the trauma of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the ocean, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! This filmmaker's tense movie is essentially a slasher movie at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is manipulated into hiring a dilapidated "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional style of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the boat's Scottish captain and crew deceive the inexperienced passengers for a ride, in every meaning of the term.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing tale of detonators planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Which wire to cut? Two lead actors play bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the ship's entertainments director, delivers a touching depiction in sadly funny despair.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's novel is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to the lead character to guide his followers through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a useful history of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The main star provides a experienced masterclass in single character portrayal as a person fighting to survive in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is harmed in a crash with an lost cargo box. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so one can only imagine how physically gruelling it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star provides excellent performance in part of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the commander of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, derived from true stories. If the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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