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Deepwater Horizon(2016)

14A
| 1h 47min | Drama, Action
3.4/5 (with 2,038 votes)

A story set on the offshore drilling rig Deepwater Horizon, which exploded during April 2010 and created the worst oil spill in U.S. history.

The Black Demon(2023)

1h 40min | Thriller, Drama
3.1/5 (with 275 votes)

Oilman Paul Sturges' idyllic family vacation turns into a nightmare when they encounter a ferocious megalodon shark that will stop at nothing to protect its territory. Stranded and under constant attack, Paul and his family must somehow find a way to get his family back to shore alive before it strikes again in this epic battle between humans and nature.

Flight of the Phoenix(2004)

3.0/5 (with 369 votes)

When an oil rig in the Gobi Desert of Mongolia proves unproductive, an aircraft crew are sent to shut the operation down and fly them out. On the flight out over the desert on the way to Beijing, Capt. Frank Towns and co-pilot A.J. are unable to keep their cargo plane, a C-119 Flying Boxcar, in the air when a violent sandstorm strikes. Crash-landing in a remote uncharted part of the desert, the two pilots and their passengers -- a crew of oil workers and a drifter -- must work together to survive by rebuilding the aircraft. Soon, low supplies and a band of merciless smugglers add even greater urgency to their task.

Home(2009)

1h 35min | Documentary
4.0/5 (with 210 votes)

In 200,000 years of existence, man has upset the balance on which the Earth had lived for 4 billion years. Global warming, resource depletion, species extinction: man has endangered his own home. But it is too late to be pessimistic: humanity has barely ten years left to reverse the trend, become aware of its excessive exploitation of the Earth's riches, and change its consumption pattern.

Red Rock West(1993)

1h 38min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 128 votes)

When a promised job for Texan Michael fails to materialize in Wyoming, Mike is mistaken by Wayne to be the hitman he hired to kill his unfaithful wife, Suzanne. Mike takes full advantage of the situation, collects the money, and runs. During his getaway, things go wrong, and soon get worse when he runs into the real hitman, Lyle.

Thunderbirds(2004)

2.5/5 (with 130 votes)

Dangerous missions are the bread and butter of the Thunderbirds, a high-tech secret force employed by the government. Led by Jeff Tracy (Bill Paxton), the Thunderbirds are at the top of their game, but their nemesis, The Hood (Ben Kingsley), has landed on their island and is attempting a coup by using the team's rescue vehicles. He'll soon discover that the Thunderbirds won't go down.

Breaking the Waves(1996)

2h 39min | Drama, Romance / Love
3.7/5 (with 406 votes)

In a small and conservative Scottish village, a woman's paralytic husband convinces her to have extramarital intercourse so she can tell him about it and give him a reason for living.

Ice(2011)

2.9/5 (with 23 votes)

It is 2020. Findings by environmental scientist Professor Thom Archer suggest that Halo, the corporate energy company drilling on the Greenland Glacier are causing it to melt. Archer's warnings are ignored, so he heads to the Arctic to find indisputable evidence. Upon arrival, he realizes humankind is under immediate threat, and races home to save his family. The glacier collapses, with devastating consequences. Astonishing weather patterns emerge and plunge the world's temperatures into steep decline.

Directed by Nick Copus - With Richard Roxburgh

The Rig(2010)

1.8/5 (with 30 votes)

In the midst of a tropical storm, the crew of an offshore oil rig must survive the rampage of a creature after invading its undersea habitat.

North Sea Hijack(1980)

1h 40min | Action
3.1/5 (with 44 votes)

When terrorists take over two oil rigs, and threaten to blow them up if their demands are not met, an eccentric anti-terrorism expert volunteers his unique commando unit to stop them.

Megalodon(2004)

1h 30min | Action
2.3/5 (with 26 votes)

A skeptical news reporter is invited by the CEO of Nexecon Petroleum to document the safety of Colossus, the largest drilling and refining platform ever constructed. As the powerful drill tears through the seabed, a fissure forms, revealing a hidden mirror ocean teeming with prehistoric life. When a team is sent to access the damage, it comes face to face with the most powerful oceanic predator that ever lived: Carcharodon Megalodon.

Directed by Pat Corbitt - With Robin Sachs, Al Sapienza, Mark Sheppard

Proteus(1995)

2.6/5 (with 11 votes)

Group of heroin smugglers finds shelter on abandoned oil rig after their ship had exploded. Soon they find that the oil rig was just cover for biological experiment. One of the results is Charlie - shape-shifting monster with ability to absorb the memory of its victims. However, even such creatures have their own bad habits.

Directed by Bob Keen
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Sahara Heat(1987)

1h 40min | Drama
1.9/5 (with 2 votes)

A photographer and her lover travel to Morocco for photo shoots. While traveling there she has erotic adventures with residents of the area. But she ends up having an affair with someone who ends up betraying her and she murders the man.

Directed by Aldo Lado - With Fiona Gélin, Enzo Decaro, Yves Collignon, Joshua McDonald, Jimmy Ghione, Christophe Ratandra, ...

The Intruder Within(1981)

3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

When drillers on an offshore oil rig dredge up several prehistoric eggs, one man is attacked by what appears to be an unidentified deep-sea creature protecting them. Soon, strange symptoms and behaviors become apparent among the crew and one of the creatures grows to adult-size.

Directed by Peter Carter

Danger Patrol(1937)

2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

An explosives carrier at an oil field falls in love with a colleague's daughter.

Directed by Lew Landers - With Sally Eilers

An Eye and a Knife(2018)

1h 39min | Drama
2.5/5 (with 1 vote)

A group of friends working on an offshore oil rig maintain close bounds and do their best to face the difficulties presented by living and working isolated out in the middle of the sea. A job promotion triggers events that disrupt, in an irreversible way, the group friendship and the protagonist’s own life on land. He is tested by the force of destiny and experiences the drama of an ordinary man facing a gradual process of isolation.

Mexicali Rose(1939)

59min | Action, Western, Music
3.0/5 (with 1 vote)

Gene Autry and his sidekick Frog look into a phony oil scam being perpetrated on a mission orphanage.

Lonely Dogs(2011)

4.4/5 (with 2 votes)

Life on an offshore oil drilling rig is becoming a burden for one of the riggers, who feels lonely and is frequently visited by a lone black dog that appears from nowhere.