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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a collection of memorable ensemble cast portraying hired guns hired to destroy the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a massive sea creature has got there first! Featuring the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A newborn, left on the passenger vessel the central location, matures to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The climax of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is the protagonist battling a keyboard contest with a jazz legend, rather unfairly shown as a overconfident individual.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor plays a warrior-esque wanderer with aquatic adaptations and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget sci-fi B-movie, located in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have inundated the Earth. Everyone is seeking legendary terra firma while resisting Dennis Hopper and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of tiresome canoodling between a upper-class woman (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who artfully converts a fatalities of over a thousand into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Commoners, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film features a cinema icon, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the vessel's physician, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The USS Claridon is destroyed in an detonation and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is trapped in their room in this compelling precursor to disaster movies. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) free her prior to the boat submerges? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the legendary European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie murder mystery. Peter Ustinov, as the famous detective, fails to stop several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Nicole Kidman act as a husband and wife trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the Pacific, where they rescue a co-star from a foundering ship. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's thriller is fundamentally a horror film at sea, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a poor condition "Scottish vessel" in the director's harsh Ealing comedy in the rebellious tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and team take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation tilt in this tension-filled story of bombs placed on a commercial vessel, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, serves up a emotional portrayal in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of this writer's novel is one of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the lead character to lead his flock through the flipped vessel to rescue. the actress is unforgettable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford gives a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a man struggling to stay alive in the specific sea after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is damaged in a crash with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to observe, so heaven knows how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to shoot.

8. Captain Phillips (2013)

The main star provides outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances characters, as the skipper of an commercial transport hijacked by Somali pirates off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by a co-star ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational first movie role as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, based on true stories. If the final sequence doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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