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20. Deep Rising (1998)

This filmmaker's futuristic scarefest details a collection of attention-grabbing supporting players acting as hired guns hired to demolish the cruise ship Argonautica. Yet a giant mutant octopus has got there first! Including the likely victims are Treat Williams as a jewel thief.

19. The 1900 Story (1998)

A infant, left on the transatlantic liner a fictional ship, grows up to be a talented keyboardist (the main star) who remains aboard the boat. The peak moment of Giuseppe Tornatore's imaginative story is the main character competing in a keyboard contest with a historical figure, arguably inaccurately portrayed as a smug bastard.

18. Ocean Planet (1995)

The lead actor acts as a warrior-esque nomad with webbed feet and a souped-up trimaran in this megabudget sci-fi B-movie, set in a later era where vanishing ice sheets have inundated the Earth. The entire population is hunting for legendary terra firma while fending off Dennis Hopper and his gang of constantly puffing pirates.

17. The Titanic (1997)

An extended period of love story development between a posh chick (the actress) and an itinerant yobbo (the male lead) are rescued by this filmmaker's spectacular recreation of one the 20th century's well-known tragedies. One must appreciate the boldness of a cinematic artist who artfully converts a death toll of 1,500 into an inspiring story of emancipation.

16. Boat of Lunatics (1965)

Peasants, artistic entertainers and political extremists mingle on a ocean liner sailing from Mexico to the Continent in the interwar period. The director's large-scale film stars Vivien Leigh, in her swan song, as a sad divorcee, but it's another actor, as the ship's doctor, and Simone Signoret, as a radical countess, who supply the film with its powerful impact.

15. The Last Voyage (1960)

The fictional ship is ripped apart in an detonation and Robert Stack's spouse (the co-star) is stranded in their room in this compelling proto-disaster pic. Is it possible for Stack and a brave technician (the supporting player) save her prior to the boat submerges? Fun fact: the fictional ship is played by the renowned historic ship a real ship.

14. Death on the Nile (1978)

Two legendary actresses are part of the murder suspects on board a Egyptian riverboat in this all-star mystery writer detective story. The lead actor, as the famous detective, is unable to halt several passengers being killed, which whittles down his suspects to a limited selection. Bags more fun than the recent version.

13. Sea Silence (1989)

Sam Neill play a partners trying to get over the pain of their offspring's demise by taking their yacht for a journey in the sea, where they recover another actor from a damaged vessel. Costly error! Phillip Noyce's suspense film is basically a slasher movie at sea, but an high-quality one that made her famous.

12. The Maggie Story (1954)

An British man, shipping furniture for an US businessman, is tricked into using a run-down "Clyde puffer" in this filmmaker's brutal Ealing comedy in the subversive vein of his own earlier film. Of course, the boat's British skipper and crew trick the main characters for a journey, in every meaning of the expression.

11. Unstoppable Force (1974)

This filmmaker gives his catastrophe film a political dimension perspective in this anxiety-inducing story of explosives planted on a luxury liner, the fictional ship. What's the correct choice? Two lead actors act as bomb disposal experts; another actor, as the ship's entertainments director, provides a emotional depiction in tragicomic desperation.

10. Poseidon's Journey (1972)

This cinematic interpretation of Paul Gallico's novel is part of the peaks of the era of disaster movies. The SS Poseidon is flipped over by a ocean surge, and it's the responsibility of Reverend Gene Hackman to guide his flock through the flipped vessel to safety. Shelley Winters is remarkable as a retailer's spouse with a handy history of athletic swimming.

9. Total Loss (2013)

The lead actor delivers a mature masterclass in solo performance as a individual struggling to survive in the specific sea after his personal boat, the main setting, is impaired in a crash with an errant cargo box. It's stressful enough to watch, so one can only imagine how exceptionally strenuous it must have been for the elderly actor to record.

8. Ship Commander (2013)

Tom Hanks delivers outstanding acting in one of his everyman-in-crisis characters, as the commander of an commercial transport hijacked by African raiders off the geographical area. He's matched by another actor ("I'm the captain now"), providing a remarkable first movie role as the raider leader in Paul Greengrass's thriller, inspired by actual incidents. When the concluding moment doesn't make you blub, you have no heart.

7. Geometric Shape (2009)

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