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20. Deep Rising (1998)

Stephen Sommers' futuristic scarefest follows a group of attention-grabbing character actors playing soldiers of fortune contracted to demolish the passenger vessel a fictional ship. But a enormous cephalopod has got there first! Among the likely victims are Kevin J O'Connor as a diamond criminal.

19. 1900's Tale (1998)

A newborn, left on the ocean-going ship the central location, matures to be a accomplished musician (Tim Roth) who remains aboard the vessel. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character fighting a piano duel with a historical figure, rather unfairly depicted as a smug bastard.

18. Aquatic World (1995)

The lead actor acts as a samurai-like nomad with mutated appendages and a enhanced trimaran in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, located in a future where disappearing glaciers have flooded the Earth. All people is seeking fabled solid ground while fending off the antagonist and his group of continuously smoking marauders.

17. The Titanic (1997)

A significant portion of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an itinerant yobbo (Leonardo DiCaprio) are saved by the director's impressive reconstruction of among history's well-known catastrophes. One must appreciate the audacity of a film-maker who artfully converts a casualties of 1,500 into an emotionally uplifting story of liberation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Working-class people, artistic entertainers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to Europe in 1933. Stanley Kramer's large-scale film includes a legendary actress, in her final role, as a melancholy character, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and another cast member, as a aristocratic rebel, who supply the movie with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The central vessel is torn asunder in an explosion and the protagonist's wife (Dorothy Malone) is stranded in their cabin in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the hero and a brave technician (the supporting player) rescue her ahead of the ship sinks? Interesting note: the fictional ship is played by the renowned European vessel an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Two legendary actresses are including the killing culprits on board a African vessel in this ensemble cast Agatha Christie whodunit. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt numerous characters being killed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Nicole Kidman portray a partners trying to get over the pain of their child's passing by sailing their boat for a spin in the ocean, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Poor decision! This filmmaker's thriller is fundamentally a slasher movie at sea, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An Englishman, transporting furniture for an wealthy entrepreneur, is deceived into employing a run-down "type of boat" in this filmmaker's dark UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own Whisky Galore!. Naturally, the vessel's Scottish captain and crew take the two landlubbers for a journey, in all senses of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker provides his catastrophe film a social commentary angle in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives positioned on a luxury liner, the SS Britannic. Red wire or blue wire? David Hemmings portray demolition specialists; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, serves up a heartbreaking study in humorous tragedy.

10. The Poseidon Adventure (1972)

This film version of Paul Gallico's novel is among the zenith of the 1970s disaster genre. The SS Poseidon is overturned by a tidal wave, and it's up to Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his group through the flipped ship to rescue. a supporting player is unforgettable as a shopkeeper's wife with a handy background of athletic swimming.

9. All is Lost (2013)

The main star delivers a late-career exemplary performance in single character portrayal as a man struggling to endure in the Indian Ocean after his sailing vessel, the main setting, is impaired in a collision with an errant transport unit. It's nerve-wracking enough to watch, so it's difficult to comprehend how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks does outstanding acting in among his ordinary-person-in-extraordinary-circumstances performances, as the commander of an American cargo ship seized by Somali pirates off the Horn of Africa. He's matched by a co-star ("I'm the captain now"), making a remarkable film debut as the criminal boss in this filmmaker's tense movie, derived from real events. If the final sequence fails to move you, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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