Oil well movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant oil well movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, suspenseful, independent film, suspense and entertaining films and TV shows about / with oil well, oil, cigarette smoking, death, family relations, explosion, fire, horse, friendship and cowboy plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Comedy genres shot in USA, France, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as oil well: There Will Be Blood (2007), Deepwater Horizon (2016), The Last Winter (2006), Ulzhan (2007), Hellfighters (1968), The District (2004), Black Gold (2011), The Secret Life of Words (2005), Hell or High Water (2016), Iron Island (2018).
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List of oil well movies
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 158 min.
Story:
Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview moves to oil-rich California. Using his adopted son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. ...
Style:
serious, cerebral, epic, visually stunning, gloomy ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
oil, character study, greed, money, capitalism, rise to the top, ambition, rivalry, father son relationship, abusive father, impostor, mission ...
Time:
1900s, 20th century, turn of the century, middle ages, 19th century ...
Place:
california, texas, pacific ocean, los angeles, america ...
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
tense, exciting, suspense, emotional, suspenseful ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, courage, oil, oil rig, sea, trapped, destruction, heroism, rescue ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
louisiana, boston, california, usa
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Genre: Horror, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA, Iceland
Duration: 101 min.
Story:
In the Arctic region of Northern Alaska, an oil company's advance team struggles to establish a drilling base that will forever alter the pristine land. After one team member is found dead, a disorientation slowly claims the sanity of the ...
Style:
scary, suspenseful, lovecraft, tense, serious ...
Plot:
oil company, male nudity, snow, american football, hallucination, sanity, monster, danger, isolation, escapades, mentally unstable, supernatural ability ...
Time:
year 1986, year 1968
Place:
usa, mississippi, alaska
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Genre: Drama
Country: Kazakhstan, Germany, France
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
Somewhere in the endless steppes of Central Asia lies a treasure. One man holds the key to it, a fragment of an ancient map. But in his restless quest, Charles isn't looking for fame or glory. He's looking for a way to heal his wounded ...
Style:
serious, realistic, existential, art house, reflective ...
Plot:
gulag, nuclear explosion, introspection, looking for love, travel, quest, treasure, oil well, loss of family, loneliness, isolation, spiritual journey ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
kazakhstan, asia
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, War
Country: USA
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
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.
Style:
sentimental, serious, exciting, rough, surprise ending ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
firefighter, oil, firefighting, tough guy, fire, danger, fistfight, reporter, marriage, oil well, heroes, family relations ...
Time:
20th century, 60s
Place:
malaysia, houston texas, usa, acapulco mexico, texas ...
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Hungary
Duration: 87 min.
Story:
In an effort to end family feuding, a young gypsy travels back in time to kill mammoths to ensure Hungary becomes rich by killing mammoths in order to create a massive oil reservoir. Things don't go entirely according to plan...
Style:
humorous, adult animation, semi serious, entertaining, epic ...
Plot:
political satire, hypocrisy, terrorism, organized crime, subculture, oil well, social decay, disorder, culture clash, social differences, life turned upside down, rich and poor ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages, stone age
Place:
hungary, manhattan new york city, washington d.c., new york
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Genre: Action, Drama, History, War
Country: France, Italy, Qatar, Tunisia
Duration: 130 min.
Story:
On the Arabian Peninsula in the 1930s, two warring leaders come face to face. The victorious Nesib, Emir of Hobeika, lays down his peace terms to rival Amar, Sultan of Salmaah. The two men agree that neither can lay claim to the area of no man’s ...
Style:
realistic, serious, suspenseful, exciting, feel good ...
Plot:
tribe, oil, desert, sheik, arab, bedouin, rivalry, state affairs, muslim, parents and children, family relations, society ...
Time:
1930s, 20th century
Place:
middle east, ottoman empire, arabia
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Spain, Ireland
Duration: 115 min.
Story:
A touching story of a deaf girl who is sent to an oil rig to take care of a man who has been blinded in a terrible accident. The girl has a special ability to communicate with the men on board and especially with her patient as they share intimate ...
Style:
touching, sentimental, emotional, sincere, sad ...
Plot:
blind character, loneliness, happy ending, nurse patient relationship, haunted by the past, disability, trauma, accident, burn victim, blind man, love, friendship ...
Time:
year 2005
Place:
ireland, northern ireland, balkan, former yugoslavia, europe ...
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
A divorced dad and his ex-con brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's farm in West Texas.
Style:
realistic, suspense, neo western, neo noir, atmospheric ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
robbery, bank robber, brother, texas ranger, bank robbery, redemption, small town, armed robbery, gunfight, bank, heist, desperation ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, future, y2k, 21st century
Place:
texas, nebraska, oklahoma, usa, california
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Genre: Family
Country: Norway
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
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 ...
Style:
feel good, captivating, entertaining, period piece, lighthearted ...
Audience:
family outing, family friendly
Plot:
friends, oil industry, oil, oil well, friendship, oil rig, mogul, oil tycoon, corporate conspiracy, competitor, escapades, business ...
Time:
60s
Place:
egypt
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Genre: Animation, Comedy
Country: Italy
Duration: 91 min.
Story:
Two friends, founders of a cooperative that produce couches and that it is found in a situation of bankruptcy, a night, while they are digging for hiding some stems that it would cost too much to digest, they discover some oil. This will make ...
Style:
satirical, entertaining, funny, semi serious, captivating ...
Plot:
satire, money problems, oil field, oil, oil industry, oil rig, money, oil well, escapades, bankruptcy, greed, friendship ...
Place:
italy
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Genre: Drama
Country: Brazil
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
On an offshore oil rig, "Iron Island" showcases the duality of people who have their lives torn apart: wherever they are, they feel incomplete. In this scenario, Dante, the oil rig's production coordinator, is an irascible man who ...
Style:
captivating, psychological, sincere, disturbing, nautical
Plot:
co worker co worker relationship, family problems, workplace situations, relationship problems, family relations, workplace, relationships, male female relationship, oil industry, lifestyle, oil well, coworker ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Outlaw and self-appointed lawmaker, Judge Roy Bean, rules over an empty stretch of the West that gradually grows, under his iron fist, into a thriving town, while dispensing his his own quirky brand of frontier justice upon strangers passing by.
Style:
satirical, humorous, stylized, exciting, spoof ...
Plot:
judge, justice, vengeance, gunfight, lawman, lawyer, society, starting over, vigilantism, friendship, corruption, obsession ...
Time:
20th century, 19th century, 70s, year 1972
Place:
texas, usa, austin texas, san antonio texas, new jersey ...
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Mexico
Duration: 121 min.
Story:
Four criminals from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting gallons of unstable nitroglycerin across dangerous jungle.
Style:
road movie, neo noir, political, existential, tension ...
Plot:
terrorist, survival, jungle adventure, driver, criminal, oil, existentialism, on the road, trucker, politics, expedition, road trip ...
Time:
year 1977, 70s, 20th century
Place:
south america, bolivia, central america, new jersey, paris france ...
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Sweden
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
In Knohult things havn't changed much. Eulalia is tired of Nisse who's engaged in all sorts of inventions in his workshop or poaching in the forest rather than to repair the water pump. When Eulalia in protest begins swimming in soft ...
Style:
entertaining, slapstick, family comedy, light hearted, parody
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
small town, swedish, farce, irreverent, satire, comic book, environmental issue, poaching, political satire, corruption, zeppelin, oil well ...
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Romance, War, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
It's 1968 and the Whit clan are reuniting for the burial of Grandpa Sparta (Martin Sheen). But Sparta still has some secrets to reveal to his family and wisdom to impart to his grandson, in this whimsical comedy from the writer of The Bourne ...
Style:
semi serious, realistic, humorous, sentimental, neo western ...
Plot:
interracial relations, mental illness, dysfunctional family, family problems, couples, family relations, love and romance, society, couple relations, unfulfillment, life is a bitch, parents and children ...
Time:
90s
Place:
texas, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 85 min.
Story:
Ben, Edna and their baby daughter are headed to California when their car breaks down. Ben ventures off to the junkyard in search of a spare part to fix his car. Coincidentally, Harry (the seedy junkyard owner) has just been accused by the police of ...
Style:
grindhouse, psychotronic, independent film, sexploitation film
Plot:
sexual assault, sex, femme fatale, beatnik, albert einstein, oil well, police brutality, hiding, fistfight, frame up, questioned by police, broken down car ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 88 min.
Story:
In Tate, Oklahoma a popular coach, Pete Nash, is accused of having a sexual relation with 14 years old Amy, one of his school's pupils.
Style:
emotional, realistic, serious, sincere, touching
Audience:
teens
Plot:
teacher student relationship, virgin, cheerleader, male teacher female student affair, teachers and students, courtroom, high school, statutory rape, teacher student sex, teacher student romance, girl man relationship, teenage sexuality ...
Time:
90s
Place:
oklahoma, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Music, Mystery, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
A journalist and podcaster from New York City travels to West Texas in order to report on the death of a girl he was hooking up with.
Style:
parody, funny, dark, suspense, dramatic ...
Plot:
border patrol, writers, vengeance, dating, journalism, drug crime, mysterious death, death, murder mystery, fear of ghosts, shakespeare, anton chekhov ...
Place:
texas, new haven connecticut, new york, usa
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Western
Country: USA, Australia
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
For years, Ollie has illicitly helped the struggling residents of her North Dakota oil boomtown access Canadian health care and medication. When the authorities catch on, she plans to abandon her crusade, only to be dragged in even deeper after a ...
Style:
suspenseful, disturbing, captivating, suspense, f word
Audience:
adult
Plot:
unplanned pregnancy, female protagonist, sister sister relationship, public health, two sisters, breaking the law, sisters, social problems, escapades, political unrest, violence against women, badass female lead ...
Time:
90s, 2010s
Place:
north dakota, canada
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: Italy, France, Spain
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
An outspoken boy and a gunfighter-pimp save a drifter's life from hanging. The boy's uncle dies, leaving a house and some dry, useless land to the boy. The dying uncle has obtained the drifter's promise to help the boy get what is ...
Style:
spaghetti western, euro western, slapstick, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
cowboy, drifter, bar fight, on the run, social relations, unlikely partners, bounty hunter, criminal heroes, heroes, rivalry, chases and races, partner ...
Time:
70s
Place:
mexico
Is relevant?
Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.
Style:
road movie, serious, suspenseful, realistic, neo noir ...
Plot:
skinny dipping, destructive relationship, family problems, on the road, jail, life is a bitch, teenage life, siblings relations, dysfunctional family, parents and children, brother, marital problem ...
Time:
20th century, 80s
Place:
usa, montana, wyoming
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 99 min.
Story:
After the death of his girlfriend's daughter from a drug overdose, Paul Kersey (Charles Bronson) takes on the local drug cartel.
Style:
cult classic, detective, grindhouse, neo noir, exciting ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, violence, revenge, vigilantism, vigilante justice, hospital, cannon, gang, machine gun, murder, wine, gunfight ...
Time:
80s, year 1987, 20th century
Place:
los angeles, usa, new york
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Genre: Action, Comedy, Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
An over-the-hill rodeo champion is so self-centered that he ignores his wife, son, and best friend.
Style:
realistic, semi serious, touching, humorous
Plot:
rodeo cowboy, rodeo, cowboy, son, stoner, marital problem, athlete's life, couple relations, family problems, family in crisis, country, marijuana ...
Time:
year 1972, 70s
Place:
new mexico, usa
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 163 min.
Story:
A teenage girl with nothing to lose joins a traveling magazine sales crew, and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she criss-crosses the Midwest with a band of misfits.
Style:
road movie, disturbing, talky, stylized, melancholic ...
Audience:
teens, date night, teen drama
Plot:
road trip, teenage girl, first love, misfit, teenage boy, supermarket, van, sex scene, on the road, adolescence, naked in public, motel ...
Time:
year 2016, 2010s, year 2017, 90s
Place:
oklahoma city, kansas city, america, oklahoma, nebraska ...
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Vigilante Force is a 1976 American action film concerning a Vietnam War veteran (Kris Kristofferson) and his buddies, who are hired by his brother (Jan-Michael Vincent) and others in a small California town for protection from rowdy oil-field ...
Style:
hood, exciting, serious, realistic, rough ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
vigilante, vigilantism, shootout, bike, human trafficking, bad cop, vigilante justice, gang, violence, oil industry, bar fight, ghetto ...
Time:
year 1976, 20th century, 70s
Place:
california, usa
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Austria
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Heinzi Boesel and Kurt Fellner are two Austrian health inspectors forced to work together, traveling through Austria. Over time a beautiful friendship evolves between the odd couple who couldn't stand each other initially; a friendship that ...
Style:
tragicomedy, semi serious, realistic, touching, humorous ...
Plot:
friendship, cancer, civil servant, colleague, friend, on the road, friendship between men, drunkenness, business trip, card playing, bribery, male friendship ...
Time:
90s
Place:
austria, europe
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Genre: Adventure, Drama, Western
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.
Style:
spaghetti western, heroic, period piece, epic, euro western
Plot:
native american, native, friendship, conflict, land grab, outlaw, conspiracy, betrayal, rescue, greed, army, colonialism ...
Time:
60s
Place:
arizona
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Genre: Crime, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada
Duration: 107 min.
Story:
An ambitious reporter probes the reasons behind the sudden split of a 1950s comedy team.
Style:
sexy, period piece, erotic, suspense, disturbing ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
murder, sexualized violence, investigation, hotel, journalist, sex, sex party, sexual obsession, lesbian, threesome, lesbian cunnilingus, cover up ...
Time:
70s, 20th century, year 1957, year 2005, 50s ...
Place:
new jersey, los angeles, miami
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Genre: Horror
Country: USA
Duration: 94 min.
Story:
A mid-western farm boy reluctantly becomes a member of the undead when a girl he meets turns out to be part of a band of southern vampires who roam the highways in stolen cars.
Style:
road movie, dark, cult classic, gothic, creepy ...
Audience:
teens
Plot:
vampire, femme fatale, violence, hitchhiker, farm, bloodsucker, truck, goth, motel, father son relationship, brother sister relationship, immortality ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
oklahoma, oklahoma city, nebraska, austin texas, usa ...
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