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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp follows a group of attention-grabbing ensemble cast playing soldiers of fortune employed to sink the luxury liner Argonautica. However a massive sea creature has already arrived! Among the endangered passengers are Kevin J O'Connor as a gem smuggler.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, deserted on the ocean-going ship the central location, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (Tim Roth) who never steps off the vessel. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's whimsical hokum is Roth fighting a musical showdown with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The main star plays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a enhanced trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, taking place in a future where disappearing glaciers have inundated the world. The entire population is hunting for fabled solid ground while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of continuously smoking raiders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are redeemed by James Cameron's impressive reconstruction of among history's notorious tragedies. It's impossible not to respect the boldness of a film-maker who manages to twist a fatalities of numerous victims into an emotionally uplifting narrative of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel traveling from North America to the Continent in 1933. This filmmaker's large-scale film includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a unhappy separated woman, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The central vessel is destroyed in an explosion and the protagonist's spouse (Dorothy Malone) is stuck in their room in this compelling early catastrophe film. Will Stack and a brave technician (Woody Strode) free her before the vessel goes down? Interesting note: the fictional ship is embodied by the famous European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, fails to stop half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a husband and wife attempting to recover from the pain of their son's death by sailing their boat for a trip in the ocean, where they save another actor from a sinking schooner. Big mistake! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is fundamentally a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an exceptionally well-made one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting goods for an wealthy entrepreneur, is manipulated into using a dilapidated "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Predictably, the ship's Scottish captain and team take the two landlubbers for a ride, in all senses of the word.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker gives his suspense story a state-of-the-nation angle in this tension-filled story of explosives placed on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? David Hemmings act as bomb disposal experts; Roy Kinnear, as the cruise director, delivers a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the high points of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a ocean surge, and it's up to the main protagonist to direct his followers through the flipped ship to safety. the actress is unforgettable as a retailer's spouse with a handy experience of sports participation.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor gives a experienced brilliant acting in single character portrayal as a individual battling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the fictional ship, is impaired in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's anxious enough to watch, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the captain of an US merchant vessel commandeered by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), delivering a sensational initial cinematic appearance as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's thriller, inspired by real events. Should the last scene doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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