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Mad Max 2(1981)

R
| 1h 36min | Adventure, Action, Thriller, Science Fiction
3.7/5 (with 1,567 votes)

Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

Directed by George Miller - With Mel Gibson, Michael Preston, Bruce Spence, Vernon Wells, Kjell Nilsson, Virginia Hey, ...
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The World Is Not Enough(1999)

PG-13
| 2h 8min | Adventure, Action, Thriller
3.1/5 (with 1,339 votes)

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Directed by Michael Apted - With Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards, Judi Dench, Robbie Coltrane, ...
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A Most Violent Year(2014)

R
| 2h 5min | Crime, Drama, Thriller
3.3/5 (with 629 votes)

A thriller set in New York City during the winter of 1981, statistically one of the most violent years in the city's history, and centered on the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on opportunities as the rampant violence, decay, and corruption of the day drag them in and threaten to destroy all they have built.

Directed by J. C. Chandor - With Oscar Isaac, Elyes Gabel, Jessica Chastain, Christopher Abbott, Matthew Maher, Albert Brooks, ...
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The Wages of Fear(1953)

PG-13
| 2h 33min | Drama, Thriller, Adventure
4.0/5 (with 366 votes)

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot - With Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Antonio Centa, Véra Clouzot, ...
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The Salvation(2014)

R
| 1h 32min | Drama, Western
3.2/5 (with 364 votes)

In 1870s America, a peaceful American settler kills his family's murderer which unleashes the fury of a notorious gang leader. His cowardly fellow townspeople then betray him, forcing him to hunt down the outlaws alone.

Directed by Kristian Levring - With Eva Green, Mads Mikkelsen, Jeffrey Dean Morgan, Michael Raymond-James, Jonathan Pryce, Éric Cantona, ...
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The Beverly Hillbillies(1993)

PG
| 1h 33min | Comedy
3.1/5 (with 229 votes)

Jed Clampett and kin move from Arkansas to Beverly Hills when he becomes a billionaire, after an oil strike. The country folk are very naive with regard to life in the big city, so when Jed starts a search for a new wife there are inevitably plenty of takers and con artists ready to make a fast buck.

Directed by Penelope Spheeris - With Jim Varney, Diedrich Bader, Erika Eleniak, Cloris Leachman, Lily Tomlin, Lea Thompson, ...

Superman and the Mole-Men(1951)

NR
| 58min | Action, Adventure, Kids & Family, Fantasy, Romance / Love, Science Fiction
2.7/5 (with 25 votes)

Reporters Clark Kent and Lois Lane arrive in the small town of Silsby to witness the drilling of the world's deepest oil well. The drill, however, has penetrated the underground home of a race of small, furry people who then come to the surface at night to look around. The fact that they glow in the dark scares the townfolk, who form a mob, led by the vicious Luke Benson, intent on killing the strange people. Only Superman has a chance to prevent this tragedy.

Directed by Lee Sholem - With George Reeves, Phyllis Coates, Jeff Corey, J. Farrell MacDonald, Frank Reicher, Jerry Maren, ...

Miami Magma(2011)

1h 27min | TV Movie, Action, Science Fiction
3.1/5 (with 37 votes)

Antoinette Vitrini, a volcanologist, confirms her theory of a long-dormant underground volcano after an offshore-drilling rig bursts into flames. Now, she must stop catastrophic amounts of magma from pumping out right under Miami, Florida.

Directed by Todor Chapkanov - With Cleavant Derricks, Brad Dourif, Lauren Graham, Mayra Leal

The Devil Has a Name(2019)

1h 37min | Drama, Comedy, Thriller
2.6/5 (with 22 votes)

An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Directed by Edward James Olmos

Comes a Horseman(1978)

1h 58min | Western, Romance / Love
3.1/5 (with 25 votes)

Ella Connors is a single woman who gets pressured to sell her failing cattle farm to her corrupt ex-suitor, Jacob Ewing. She asks for help from her neighbor, Frank Athearn. As Ella and Frank fight back through stampedes, jealousy, betrayal, and sabotage... they eventually find love.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula, Paul Helmick - With James Caan, Jane Fonda, Jason Robards, Richard Farnsworth, George Grizzard, Jim Davis, ...
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Boom Town(1940)

NR
| 1h 59min | Adventure, Drama, Romance / Love, Western
3.6/5 (with 21 votes)

McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

Directed by Jack Conway, John Waters - With Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr, Frank Morgan, Lionel Atwill, ...
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Hellfighters(1968)

G
| 2h 1min | Action, Adventure, Romance / Love
3.3/5 (with 32 votes)

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen - With John Wayne, Katharine Ross, Jim Hutton, Vera Miles, Jay C. Flippen, Bruce Cabot, ...
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'Neath the Arizona Skies(1934)

NR
| 52min | Action, Western
2.3/5 (with 13 votes)

Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes.

Directed by Harry L. Fraser - With John Wayne, Harry L. Fraser, Frank Hall Crane, George "Gabby" Hayes, Yakima Canutt, Sheila Terry, ...

The Soldier(1982)

R
| 1h 36min | Action
2.9/5 (with 15 votes)

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Directed by James Glickenhaus - With Ken Wahl, Jeffrey Jones, Joaquim de Almeida, Steve James, Alberta Watson, Klaus Kinski, ...

Journey into Fear(1975)

R
| 1h 40min | Thriller
3.3/5 (with 2 votes)

U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.

Directed by Daniel Mann - With Sam Waterston, Donald Pleasence, Vincent Price, Shelley Winters

Oklahoma Crude(1973)

PG
| 1h 48min | Comedy, Drama, Western
3.1/5 (with 13 votes)

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

Directed by Stanley Kramer - With George C. Scott, Faye Dunaway, John Mills, Jack Palance, William Lucking, Stacy Keach, ...
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Rollover(1981)

R
| 1h 56min | Drama, Mystery, Romance / Love, Thriller
2.7/5 (with 10 votes)

An Arab oil organization devises a plan to wreck the world economy in order to cause anarchy and chaos.

Directed by Alan J. Pakula - With Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer, Bob Gunton, Martha Plimpton, ...
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Born Of War(2013)

R
| 1h 49min | Action, Thriller, War
2.2/5 (with 6 votes)

Mina, a young college student, has her life ripped away after her family is killed. When she finds out their murder was part of a botched kidnapping to return her to her real father—a terrorist in the middle east.

Campbell's Kingdom(1957)

NR
| 1h 42min | Adventure, Drama, Western
2.8/5 (with 6 votes)

Given only six months to live, Englishman Bruce Campbell goes to Canada to claim "Campbell's Kingdom", the land he inherited from his grandfather. In order to clear his grandfather's name and prove there is oil on the land, Campbell must face up to a ruthless contractor and work against the clock to find oil before "Campbell's Kingdom" is flooded by a new power dam.

Directed by Ralph Thomas - With Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray, Athene Seyler, Finlay Currie, ...

Hurricane Smith(1992)

1h 26min | Action, Drama
2.1/5 (with 3 votes)

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.

Directed by Colin Budds - With Carl Weathers, Jürgen Prochnow, Tony Bonner
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In Old Oklahoma(1943)

NR
| 1h 42min | Western
3.3/5 (with 16 votes)

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

Directed by Albert S. Rogell - With John Wayne, Martha Scott, Albert Dekker, George "Gabby" Hayes, Marjorie Rambeau, Dale Evans, ...
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Tulsa(1949)

1h 30min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.

Directed by Stuart Heisler - With Chief Yowlachie, Chill Wills, Ed Begley, Jimmy Conlin, Lloyd Gough, Pedro Armendáriz, ...
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Blowing Wild(1953)

NR
| 1h 30min | Action, Adventure, Western, Drama
2.9/5 (with 11 votes)

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

Directed by Hugo Fregonese - With Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck, Ruth Roman, Anthony Quinn, Ward Bond, Ian MacDonald, ...
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The Junior Olsen Gang and the Black Gold(2009)

1h 28min | Adventure, Kids & Family
2.8/5 (with 1 vote)

Norwegian engineers are searching for oil and Egon Olsen convinces his friends to buy stocks in the oil market. In the process, Egon, stumbles upon a scheme to fool the Norwegian Government that there is indeed no traces of oil in the North Sea. The Olsen Gang tries to tell the ministry the truth about the oil but they are caught by Sheik El-Altan who, in order to make sure the boys keep their mouths shut, kidnaps Valborg and brings her to Egypt.

Directed by Arne Lindtner Næss - With Oskar Øiestad

The Magnificent Bandits(1969)

1h 42min | Western
3.6/5 (with 4 votes)

Brazil, the 1920s. The sadistic colonel Minas massacres the hometown of a famous cangaceiro (a kind of revolutionary bandit). The only survivor is a young farmer called Espedito; he is nursed back to health by a (crazy?) hermit who thinks he has been sent (= espedito) by God and therefore baptizes him the Redeemer. Espedito/The Redeemer forms his own gang of cangaceiros but doesn’t really understand what he’s doing until he befriends the proverbial European intellectual, a Dutch Oil prospector, who introduces him to important people. Espedito is hired (and of course double-crossed) by the Dutchman and a corrupt local governor, but then the Dutchman changes sides ….

Directed by Giovanni Fago - With Tomas Milian, Ugo Pagliai, Claudio Scarchilli, José Carlos Martins Ferreira, Aldo Gasparri, Howard Ross, ...

The Bounty Hunter(1989)

1h 30min | Crime, Action
1.2/5 (with 2 votes)

An ex-cop turned bounty hunter shows up in a small town looking for a man who's jumped bail. However, the real reason he's there is to avenge his old friend, an Indian who lived in the area and was murdered by the local sheriff, who is trying to get the Indians to sell their land cheaply so an oil company can move in and take over the land, which they believe sits on top of large reserves of oil.

Directed by Robert Ginty
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Oceans of Fire(1986)

1h 34min | Action, TV Movie
2.2/5 (with 4 votes)

Ben, a former Navy officer now works on a rig as the guy in charge, but since a lot of crew keeps dying whilst diving and planting the rig in the sea he needs men who are willing to take the risk. He gets in touch with an old friend from the Navy who works in a prison as sort of an diving training base and there Ben selects out the best to complete the task, but with superiors breathing down his neck, a camera crew now jumping on board and a deadline to meet he wants to finish the job and make sure the men stay alive, but not all things work out as he plans.

Directed by Steve Carver

The Marauders(1947)

1h 3min | Western, Mystery

Hoppy, California and Lucky take refuge from a storm inside a supposedly abandoned church outside a ghost town, only to meet a young woman and her mother there, then find themselves surrounded by a gang of "workmen" intent on tearing down the church if they have to kill the five to do it.

Directed by George Archainbaud - With William Boyd

The Stars Fell on Henrietta(1995)

PG
| 1h 49min | Drama
3.1/5 (with 7 votes)

The setting is early America during the oil boom. An elderly, down on his luck 'oil man', Mr. Cox finds himself in the town of Henrietta. Using unconventional methods, he convinces himself and local Don Day that there is oil on Day's land. The financially strapped Day puts everything into finding oil...but at what cost?

Directed by James Keach - With Robert Duvall, Aidan Quinn, Frances Fisher, Brian Dennehy, Billy Bob Thornton
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Panama Lady(1939)

1h 5min | Action, Thriller, Drama
3.3/5 (with 1 vote)

A weary dance-hall girl in a Panama saloon is given the choice of jail or going with a rough-and-tumble oil driller's jungle oil-field in order to pay him back for being slipped a mickey and robbed.

Directed by Jack Hively - With Lucille Ball, Steffi Duna, Evelyn Brent, Allan Lane, Abner Biberman, Earle Hodgins, ...
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