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20. Deep Rising (1998)

The director's sci-fi horror pulp details a group of attention-grabbing supporting players portraying mercenaries employed to sink the cruise ship the main setting. However a massive sea creature has beaten them to it! Featuring the endangered passengers are Famke Janssen as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A baby, abandoned on the passenger vessel a fictional ship, grows up to be a gifted pianist (the main star) who refuses to leave the boat. The climax of this filmmaker's whimsical hokum is the protagonist competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a overconfident individual.

18. Waterworld (1995)

The lead actor portrays a warrior-esque drifter with webbed feet and a souped-up sailing vessel in this big-budget science fiction adventure, set in a future where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the world. All people is hunting for fabled solid ground while resisting the villain and his gang of continuously smoking pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

Two hours of romantic interludes between a posh chick (Kate Winslet) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are saved by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of a famous well-known disasters. It's impossible not to respect the audacity of a cinematic artist who successfully transforms a death toll of numerous victims into an heartening story of freedom.

16. Vessel of Madness (1965)

Peasants, flamenco dancers and political extremists rub shoulders on a commercial vessel sailing from Mexico to Europe in 1933. The director's large-scale film features a legendary actress, in her last performance, as a sad divorcee, but it's a co-star, as the medical officer, and another cast member, as a political noblewoman, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. Final Journey (1960)

The USS Claridon is ripped apart in an explosion and the lead actor's partner (the actress) is stuck in their quarters in this intense proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for the main character and a courageous worker (the supporting player) save her ahead of the boat submerges? Fun fact: the Claridon is embodied by the renowned French liner Île de France.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are among the murder suspects on board a African vessel in this celebrity-filled mystery writer murder mystery. The main star, as the Belgian sleuth, is unable to halt several passengers being stabbed, which reduces his suspects to a manageable number. Significantly better than the 2022 remake.

13. Ocean Stillness (1989)

Two lead actors play a married couple seeking to heal from the grief of their son's death by sailing their boat for a journey in the Pacific, where they save another actor from a foundering ship. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is essentially a slasher movie at on the ocean, but an ultra-classy one that put Kidman on the map.

12. The Maggie (1954)

An UK citizen, transporting items for an American industrialist, is deceived into using a run-down "type of boat" in the director's harsh UK production in the rebellious vein of his own Whisky Galore!. Of course, the vessel's Scottish captain and staff take the two landlubbers for a trip, in multiple interpretations of the expression.

11. Overwhelming Power (1974)

Richard Lester imparts his disaster thriller a state-of-the-nation perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of detonators positioned on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. Which wire to cut? Richard Harris act as explosive technicians; Roy Kinnear, as the vessel's activities coordinator, provides a heartbreaking study in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This adaptation of the author's book is one of the high points of the 1970s disaster genre. The central vessel is capsized by a ocean surge, and it's the job of Reverend Gene Hackman to direct his followers through the upturned hull to safety. Shelley Winters is memorable as a small business owner's partner with a handy experience of athletic swimming.

9. Everything's Gone (2013)

The main star provides a mature masterclass in single character portrayal as a person fighting to stay alive in the maritime location after his personal boat, the main setting, is harmed in a collision 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. Captain Phillips (2013)

The lead actor does sterling work in among his regular-guys-under-intolerable-pressure performances, as the captain of an American cargo ship hijacked by maritime criminals off the Horn of Africa. He has great chemistry by Barkhad Abdi ("Now I'm in charge"), providing a sensational film debut as the criminal boss in the director's tense movie, derived from real events. When the last scene doesn't bring tears, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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