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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's science fiction thriller follows a collection of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune employed to destroy the luxury liner Argonautica. Yet a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the likely victims are Treat Williams as a gem smuggler.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner the central location, matures to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who never steps off the ship. The highlight of Giuseppe Tornatore's fantastical tale is Roth battling a musical showdown with a jazz legend, arguably inaccurately depicted as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

Kevin Costner plays a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a souped-up trimaran in this big-budget futuristic thriller, located in a distant time where disappearing glaciers have submerged the world. The entire population is searching for fabled solid ground while fighting off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking pirates.

17. RMS Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of romantic interludes between a posh chick (the actress) and an working-class man (the actor) are saved by this filmmaker's impressive reconstruction of one the 20th century's most infamous disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a film-maker who successfully transforms a death toll of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and Nazi eugenicists mingle on a passenger ship traveling from North America to the Old World in the interwar period. The director's sweeping drama includes a cinema icon, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and a talented performer, as a radical countess, who supply the movie with its dramatic punch.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The USS Claridon is torn asunder in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the co-star) is trapped in their quarters in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can Stack and a courageous worker (Woody Strode) save her before the vessel goes down? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the famous historic ship a real ship.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Angela Lansbury are among the homicide possibilities on board a African vessel in this all-star Agatha Christie whodunit. Peter Ustinov, as Hercule Poirot, cannot prevent half the cast being shot, which whittles down his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the 2022 remake.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman play a partners attempting to recover from the grief of their son's death by taking their yacht for a spin in the sea, where they rescue Billy Zane from a foundering ship. Poor decision! The director's thriller is essentially a horror film at in maritime setting, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an American industrialist, is deceived into hiring a run-down "type of boat" in the director's brutal Ealing comedy in the rebellious vein of his own previous work. Predictably, the vessel's UK commander and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the term.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary tilt in this tension-filled story of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the main setting. Red wire or blue wire? Richard Harris act as bomb disposal experts; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is among the peaks of the seventies catastrophe films. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's the job of the main protagonist to guide his group through the inverted vessel to safety. a supporting player is remarkable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy history of sports participation.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The lead actor delivers a experienced exemplary performance in solo performance as a person fighting to stay alive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an lost shipping container. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to film.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers sterling work in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances roles, as the skipper of an commercial transport seized by maritime criminals off the specific location. He's matched by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational film debut as the raider leader in the director's suspense film, inspired by real events. Should the concluding moment fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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