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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's science fiction thriller follows a group of scene-stealing character actors portraying soldiers of fortune employed to sink the luxury liner the main setting. Yet a enormous cephalopod has already arrived! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, left on the passenger vessel SS Virginian, develops to be a accomplished musician (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of the director's imaginative story is the main character competing in a musical showdown with a historical figure, somewhat unjustly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star portrays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a future where vanishing ice sheets have flooded the planet. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of constantly puffing raiders.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

Two hours of love story development between a posh chick (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by James Cameron's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. One must appreciate the audacity of a director who successfully transforms a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring tale of freedom.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Commoners, Spanish performers and political extremists interact on a passenger ship sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the medical officer, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who provide the film with its dramatic punch.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's wife (the actress) is trapped in their room in this gripping early catastrophe film. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the actor) rescue her prior to the boat submerges? Interesting note: the Claridon is represented by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this all-star crime novelist whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as the Belgian sleuth, cannot prevent several passengers being shot, which narrows his persons of interest to a manageable number. Significantly better than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by venturing on their vessel for a spin in the sea, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Costly error! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an US businessman, is manipulated into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in the director's harsh UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the ship's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a ride, in multiple interpretations of the term.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

The director provides his catastrophe film a state-of-the-nation angle in this anxiety-inducing yarn of explosives placed on a commercial vessel, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray explosive technicians; another actor, as the vessel's activities coordinator, delivers a heartbreaking depiction in humorous tragedy.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of Paul Gallico's literary work is among the high points of the seventies catastrophe films. The fictional ship is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the responsibility of the lead character to lead his followers through the flipped ship to safety. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a useful history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor gives a mature exemplary performance in one-man show as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a collision with an errant cargo box. It's anxious enough to view, so it's difficult to comprehend how extremely demanding it must have been for the 76-year-old star to film.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers excellent performance in one of his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("I'm the captain now"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, derived from true stories. If the final sequence fails to move you, you have no heart.

7. Triangle (2009)

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