Movies like The Woman in Cabin 10

Why it's similar — The Michael Winner Christie adaptation runs on the same closed-circle architecture Stone imports from Ware's novel: a fixed group of travellers, a single suspicious death, a detective figure none of them want investigating. Both films move at the pace of dinner-party social manoeuvre rather than chase-thriller velocity, and both rely on a guest who saw something the others have agreed did not happen.

Why it's similar — Sinatra's private-eye picture stages its mystery on and around boats moored off Miami, and the wealthy-family-with-secrets-on-the-water atmosphere is the closest pre-Ware example of the subgenre Cabin 10 inhabits. Stone's superyacht is a glossier version of Rome's marina, but the same suspicions — that the rich passengers are hiding the body of someone less well-defended — animate both films.

Why it's similar — Rowdy Herrington's Pittsburgh river-police thriller pairs the on-the-water investigation with a protagonist whose colleagues have already decided he is unreliable. Cabin 10's Lo and Striking Distance's Hardy share the same dramatic engine — the witness everyone has agreed not to believe — and the late-act reveals are constructed off similar architecture.

Why it's similar — Eastwood's Michael Connelly adaptation pairs a marina-dwelling investigator with a closed-list suspect pool, much of the action constrained to docks and small craft. The film's controlled, deliberately slowed register is the closest American cousin to the European-thriller pacing Stone uses for Lo's investigation.

Why it's similar — Declan Whitebloom's thriller takes the same premise — an extra person on a private yacht that nobody will officially acknowledge — and plays it as full-throttle action where Cabin 10 plays it as drawing-room mystery. The points of contact are the locked-yacht geography and the question of who on board can be trusted to confirm what the protagonist saw.