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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp chronicles a group of scene-stealing supporting players acting as hired guns contracted to destroy the passenger vessel a fictional ship. Yet a giant mutant octopus has beaten them to it! Among the potential cephalopod fodder are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The Legend of 1900 (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who refuses to leave the vessel. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the main character competing in a piano duel with a jazz legend, rather unfairly depicted as a arrogant character.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The main star acts as a fighter-inspired nomad with webbed feet and a enhanced sailing vessel in this high-cost sci-fi B-movie, taking place in a distant time where melting polar ice-caps have flooded the planet. The entire population is searching for legendary terra firma while fighting off the villain and his band of chain-smoking marauders.

17. Titanic (1997)

Two hours of tiresome canoodling between a wealthy lady (the female lead) and an working-class man (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's breathtaking depiction of among history's notorious disasters. You have to admire the boldness of a director who manages to twist a fatalities of 1,500 into an inspiring narrative of emancipation.

16. Ship of Fools (1965)

Peasants, Spanish performers and German ideologists rub shoulders on a passenger ship traveling from Latin America to the Old World in the interwar period. This filmmaker's sweeping drama includes Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's Oskar Werner, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a radical countess, who provide the motion picture with its emotional wallop.

15. Ultimate Trip (1960)

The fictional ship is destroyed in an blast and the lead actor's spouse (the co-star) is trapped in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Can the hero and a heroic engineer (Woody Strode) free her ahead of the ship sinks? Curious detail: the Claridon is played by the famous historic ship an actual ocean liner.

14. Nile Killing (1978)

Bette Davis are part of the homicide possibilities on board a Egyptian riverboat in this celebrity-filled mystery writer whodunit. The main star, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his potential killers to a smaller group. Bags more fun than the modern adaptation.

13. Dead Calm (1989)

Two lead actors portray a married couple trying to get over the pain of their son's death by taking their yacht for a trip in the sea, where they recover a co-star from a damaged vessel. Big mistake! The director's thriller is essentially a killers-on-the-loose story at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that launched her career.

12. Maggie's Tale (1954)

An British man, shipping goods for an US businessman, is deceived into employing a poor condition "type of boat" in the director's brutal UK production in the unconventional tradition of his own earlier film. Of course, the vessel's UK commander and team deceive the inexperienced passengers for a trip, in all senses of the expression.

11. Juggernaut (1974)

This filmmaker imparts his suspense story a social commentary perspective in this tension-filled yarn of explosives positioned on a passenger ship, the main setting. What's the correct choice? Richard Harris portray demolition specialists; a supporting player, as the cruise director, delivers a emotional study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of this writer's book is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The fictional ship is flipped over by a tsunami, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his followers through the upturned vessel to safety. the actress is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of competitive swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

Robert Redford delivers a late-career exemplary performance in one-man show as a person battling to survive in the maritime location after his yacht, the Virginia Jean, is impaired in a crash with an stray cargo box. It's stressful enough to observe, so heaven knows how physically gruelling it must have been for the senior performer to shoot.

8. Vessel Leader (2013)

The main star does outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis performances, as the skipper of an American cargo ship seized by African raiders off the geographical area. His performance is complemented by Barkhad Abdi ("I control this vessel"), making a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in Paul Greengrass's thriller, based on real events. Should the final sequence doesn't bring tears, you're not human.

7. Three-Sided Figure (2009)

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