Secret Sharer

A young Polish captain takes his first command aboard a rusting cargo ship in the South China Sea. His Chinese crew, already distrustful, come to suspect that he and the ship's unscrupulous owner intend to sink the vessel to collect the insurance. The crew abandon the ship, leaving the captain alone and powerless at anchor in a bay. During a restless night on deck he spots a body drifting in the water, caught in a rope ladder. He pulls the ladder in and finds a Chinese woman, who comes aboard with only the words "Hide me." By daybreak a search party arrives, hunting for a killer.

Secret Sharer is a 2014 drama with thriller and romantic elements, written and directed by Peter Fudakowski. It is his second film as director, following his 2006 debut. The story is loosely based on Joseph Conrad's novella The Secret Sharer, transposed to a contemporary ship. The cast is led by Jack Laskey as the captain, Konrad, and Zhu Zhu as the woman, Li, with Leon Dai, Si Qin Chao Ke Tu, K.M. Lo and Ying Wang in supporting roles. The production was a four-country affair, involving the United Kingdom, China, Poland and Thailand, and was made for a budget of about five million dollars.

The film runs 103 minutes. On IMDb it holds a rating of 5.9 from 279 votes, a modest score from a small number of viewers.