Movies like The Oil Prince
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The Oil Prince (1965)
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Original name: Der Ölprinz
Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route. But soon The Oilprince has to recognize that he has not counted on Winnetou, the righteous leader of the Apaches, and his blood brother Old Surehand.
Style:
exciting, rough, realistic, suspenseful, semi serious
Plot:
settler, apache, adventure, old west, friendship, heroes, betrayal, adventurer, vigilantism, danger, bank, society, dishonesty, lone wolves, rivalry, culture clash, cons and scams, tough heroes, gasoline, native american, death, american indian, murder, indian chief, apache tribe ...
Place:
arizona, usa
Most similar movies to The Oil Prince
The list contains related movies ordered by similarity. Recommendation engine sorted out realistic, suspenseful, serious and exciting films with plots about heroes, rivalry, adventure, old west, native american, escapades and danger mostly in Western, Adventure and Action genres. Some movies like The Oil Prince: Old Surehand (1965), Amongst Vultures (1964), The Valley of Death (1968), Mackenna's Gold (1969), Winnetou: The Red Gentleman (1964). The matching attributes are highlighted in bold.
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Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Old Surehand and his faithful old friend Old Wabble are on the trail of a cold-blooded killer with the nickname 'The General'. The brother of Old Surehand was murdered by him. On the way Old Surehand and Old Wabble are involved in the ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, rough, exciting
Plot:
old west, apache, vengeance, track down, crimes, partners against crime, partners, chases and races, rivalry, gang, adventure, horse ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
95%

Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Frontier Hellcat was the fourth in a series of 1960s European westerns based on Karl May's "Winnetou" character. Stewart Granger takes over from Lex Barker in the leading "Anglo"-role of the mysterious maverick who wanders ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, realistic, serious, rough ...
Plot:
native american, equestrian, apache, adventure, crimes, escapades, rescue, lone wolves, music band, adventurer, gang, rivalry ...
Time:
19th century, 1800s
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
83%

Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Mabel Kingsley arrives at a western town to clear her missing father of the charge that he stole a shipment of government gold. A frontiersman known as "Shatterhand" agrees to guide her in a search for the gold and for major Kingsley. They ...
Style:
serious, realistic, exciting, suspenseful
Plot:
gang, native american, gold, lieutenant, society, lone wolves, chases and races, rivalry, danger, dishonesty, heroes, social relations ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
latin america, mexico
⇓ similarity ⇓
68%

Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany, France, Yugoslavia
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Colonel Brinkley is a criminal who has been with the map of where the treasure is the Silver Lake. Winnetou and Old Shatterhand come again towards goodness, but along the way will encounter enemy tribes they will face.
Style:
realistic, serious, exciting
Plot:
treasure hunt, treasure, old west, danger, adventure, heroes, chases and races, escapades, quicksand, gunfight, lake, native american ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
usa
⇓ similarity ⇓
59%
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 128 min.
Story:
The gangster Colorado kidnaps Marshal McKenna. He believes that McKenna has seen a map which leads to a rich vein of gold in the mountains and forces him to show him the way. But they're not the only ones who're after the gold; soon they ...
Style:
exciting, captivating, suspense, tense, serious ...
Plot:
treasure hunt, gold, map, adventure, chase, desert, gang, marshal, rivalry, danger, murder, escapades ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
usa, colorado, mexico, arizona, sonora ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
100%
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Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
Forester, a ruthless oil baron, wants to create a war between the native American tribes and the white men. Old Shatterhand, Winnetou and their sidekick Castlepool try to prevent this.
Plot:
horse, apache, arizona territory, adventurer, outlaw, settler, native american, oil well, renegade, massacre, kidnapping, marriage ...
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
47%

Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 103 min.
Story:
Report reaches the US cavalry that the Apache leader Ulzana has left his reservation with a band of followers. A compassionate young officer, Lieutenant DeBuin, is given a small company to find him and bring him back; accompanying the troop is ...
Style:
serious, realistic, suspenseful, bleak, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
39%

Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
The construction of the Great Western Railroad creates heavy conflict between the railway company and neighboring Indian tribes. Worse, criminal gang leader Santer sets his eyes on a gold mine located on holy Indian land and influences the ...
Style:
cult film
Plot:
roman salute, apache, horse, apache indian, village, railway, gold, arizona territory, apache territory, u.s. army, criminal, knife ...
Place:
arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Western
Country: UK, West Germany, USA
Duration: 113 min.
Story:
Sean Connery is Shalako, a guide in the old West who has to rescue an aristocratic British hunting party from Indians and bandits.
Style:
serious, realistic, stylized, cult film
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
native american, rescue, survival, opposites attract, tough heroes, adventure, danger, rivalry, hostages, adventurer, crimes, culture clash ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
new mexico, usa, arizona, tucson arizona
⇓ similarity ⇓
37%

Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: West Germany
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Halfwit Indian Akaena promises a fictitious treasure to anyone who takes her down south where the sun always shines. Trapper Bill Robinson, an honest fur trader in Alaska, refuses to sell his dog sled to dishonest miner Mike Williams, who steals it ...
Style:
exciting, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
37%
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Genre: Western, Adventure
Country: West Germany, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
On her b-day, settler's daughter Apanatschi receives her father's secret gold mine but greedy neighboring prospectors resort to murder and kidnapping in order to get the gold, forcing the girl and her brother to seek Winnetou's ...
Plot:
native american, magician, gold, saloon, basement, gang, tunnel, shot in the back, explosion, shot to death, gunshot, american indian ...
⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 100 min.
Story:
Will Mannon, "product of the Devil's loins," is released from a frontier prison and promptly goes in search of the people who put him there some 12 years ago -- Matt Dillon and Kitty Russell.
Style:
suspenseful, rough, exciting, realistic, serious
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
law enforcement, adventure, old west, small town, americana, vengeance, friendship, heroes, chases and races, escapades, criminal's revenge, partners ...
Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
36%

Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
Murphy plays an ex-Quantrill's Raider who's released from jail with buddy Cooper to be deputized as Arizona Rangers in order to hunt down the remnant of the gang, rumored to he hiding out in a town "neer dee border" in the words ...
Style:
realistic, serious, rough, exciting, suspenseful
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
35%

Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
After blaming Britt for his wife's decision to stay with the Native Americans who captured her, an abusive husband organizes a party of vigilantes to accompany him into Indian territory.
Style:
realistic, exciting, rough, suspenseful, serious
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Smallpox plagues Chief Winterhawk's tribe. He seeks cure from the white men, who in turn, in fear of getting the smallpox, kill two of his companions. Winterhawk comes back to kidnap a girl and her brother from the white men's settlement, ...
Style:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
34%
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
In the mid-19th century, Senator William J. Tadlock leads a group of settlers overland in a quest to start a new settlement in the Western US. Tadlock is a highly principled and demanding taskmaster who is as hard on himself as he is on those who ...
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Audience:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
33%

Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 80 min.
Story:
Former Texas Rangers Sam Ward and Logan Keliher become enemies when Sam turns bank robber and Logan marries Sam's ex-wife.
Style:
rough, suspenseful, serious, realistic, exciting
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%
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Genre: Adventure, Western
Country: South Africa
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Bandits target a gold miner and his granddaughter in 19th century South Africa. Robert Gunnar is the bandit with a heart of gold, who is after Price's cache of gold, but falls in love with Diana Ivarson, who has hair of gold (bleach).
Style:
exciting, realistic, semi serious, suspenseful, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
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Time:
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Place:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
32%

Genre: Western
Country: Spain, Italy
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Set during the American Civil War
Style:
exciting, semi serious, realistic, stylized, humorous
Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%
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⇓ similarity ⇓
31%

Genre: Adventure, Family, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
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Style:
suspenseful, exciting, realistic, semi serious, surprise ending
Audience:
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Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Duration: 95 min.
Story:
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Plot:
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Time:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Audience:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Country: West Germany, France, Italy, Yugoslavia
Duration: 122 min.
Story:
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Style:
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Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A wagon master and a con-man preacher help freed slaves dogged by cheap-labor agents out West.
Style:
realistic, semi serious
Plot:
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⇓ similarity ⇓
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Genre: Western
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Taggart's family is slaughtered by a rival rancher. Taggart mortally wounds the rancher and kills his son. Before he dies the rancher hires three bounty hunters to avenge him with the promise of $5000 as a reward. Taggart must flee into Apache ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Western
Country: Italy
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
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Style:
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