Oil industry movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant oil industry movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out captivating, tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful and serious films and TV shows about / with oil industry, oil, corruption, greed, betrayal, oil rig, ambition, danger, moral ambiguity and conspiracy plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Action genres shot in USA, Norway, Italy and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as oil industry: State of Happiness (2018), The Burning Sea (2021), Deepwater Horizon (2016), There Will Be Blood (2007), Pioneer (2013), Accidental Texan (2023), Landman (2024), Ice (2011), Dallas (2012), Blood & Oil (2015).
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Norway, Belgium
Duration: 45 min.
TV show
Story:
The night before Christmas 1969, the gas flare at the Ocean Viking is lit. Phillips has found the largest sub sea oil basin in history. And everything is about to change.
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, tense, period piece ...
Plot:
oil, oil industry, politics, class differences, financial problem, coastal town, changing lives, port, intrigue, secretary, post war, women ...
Time:
70s, 80s, 20th century, 60s
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Sweden, Denmark
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
An oil platform dramatically goes down on the Norwegian coast, and researchers try to find out what happened when they realize this is just the start of something even more serious.
Style:
tense, disturbing, suspenseful, suspense, captivating ...
Plot:
disaster, oil rig, sea, catastrophe, north sea, ocean, submarine, oil industry, natural disaster, trapped, mission, trap ...
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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: 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: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway, Germany, Sweden, France, Finland
Duration: 111 min.
Story:
Pioneer is set in the early '80s, at the beginning of the Norwegian Oil Boom. Enormous oil and gas deposits are discovered in the North Sea and the authorities aim to bring the oil ashore through a pipeline from depths of 500 meters. A ...
Style:
captivating, tense, realistic, serious, stylized ...
Plot:
underwater, oil, oil industry, conspiracy, obsession, uncover truth, investigation, ocean, danger, twists and turns, scuba diving, desire ...
Time:
80s, 20th century, 70s
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Genre: Drama, History
Country: Japan
Duration: 145 min.
Story:
Fueled: The Man They Called Pirate (Japanese: 海賊とよばれた男 Hepburn: Kaizoku to yobareta otoko) is a best selling Japanese historical novel by Naoki Hyakuta. As of January 2014, it had sold over 1,700,000 copies.[1] In April 2013, it won ...
Style:
disturbing, captivating, thought provoking, dramatic, historical drama ...
Plot:
oil industry, post war japan, oil, oil company, oil tycoon, historical figure, biopic, resilience, leadership, perseverance, entrepreneurship, ambition ...
Time:
20th century
Place:
japan, iran
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Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Erwin blows his first acting job and finds himself stranded in Texas, where he's taken under the wing of a nearly bankrupt oil driller Merle and his cohort Faye. The three set off on a wild adventure to outwit the bank and a corrupt oil company ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, buddy comedy, humorous ...
Plot:
oil industry, corruption, oil tycoon, oil, money problems, oil company, problem, road trip, underdog, fish out of water, friendship, oil field ...
Place:
texas
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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: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Set in the proverbial boomtowns of West-Texas and a modern-day tale of fortune-seeking in the world of oil rigs, the series is an upstairs/downstairs story of roughnecks and wildcat billionaires that are fueling a boom so big it’s reshaping our ...
Plot:
oil industry, corporate greed, class conflict, greed, small town life, moral ambiguity, ambition, power struggle, machismo, survival, oil company, fortune ...
Time:
2020s, 21st century
Place:
texas
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Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 92 min.
TV show
Story:
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 ...
Style:
exciting, serious, suspenseful, disturbing, apocalyptic
Plot:
climate change, forces of nature, disaster, ecological disaster, evacuation, survival, iceberg, danger, escapades, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time:
future, 21st century
Place:
antarctica, greenland
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
J.R., Bobby and Sue Ellen Ewing are all back at Southfork, with plenty of secrets, schemes and betrayals in mind. This time, they're joined by the next generation of Ewings, who take ambition and deception to a new level.
Style:
soap opera, realistic, serious, captivating, stylized ...
Plot:
family business, betrayal, family relations, parents and children, family secret, family feud, oil industry, family problems, dishonesty, ambition, uninhibited rivalry, rivalry ...
Time:
2010s, 21st century
Place:
texas, southern usa, usa, dallas texas
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 42 min.
TV show
Story:
Billy and Cody LeFever dream of a new life and move to "The Bakken" in North Dakota, booming after the biggest oil discovery in American history. They’re soon pitted against a ruthless tycoon who forces them to put everything on the ...
Style:
tense, captivating, suspense, realistic
Plot:
oil industry, oil field, love triangle, business deal, ambition, husband wife relationship, oil, business competition, murder, secret, revenge, industrialist ...
Place:
north dakota
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Genre: Action, Thriller
Country: West Germany
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
In a complex story of automotive intrigue, oil barons, corporate finance, and international villainy, the inventor of an environmentally friendly car powered by energy cells becomes the target of killers. After Ralph Korda has given his patented ...
Style:
suspenseful, dark, period piece
Plot:
car, oil industry, industrial espionage, greed, corporate conspiracy, power struggle, environmental, political corruption, sabotage, assassination, suspicion, european ...
Time:
80s
Place:
germany
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Genre: Drama
Country: UK, Canada
TV show
Story:
An oil industrialist, an environmental activist and a politician are in conflict in this drama set around a summit on climate change.
Style:
disturbing, suspense, captivating, serious, tense ...
Plot:
climate change, corporate greed, environment, global warming, evil corporation, environmental activist, oil, greed, lobbyist, conflict of interest, oil industry, conflict ...
Time:
2000s
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Genre: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: Nigeria, USA
Duration: 95 min.
Story:
A volatile, oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against their corrupt government and a multi-national oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed by excessive drilling and spills. To seek justice, a rebel organization kidnaps an ...
Style:
realistic, suspenseful, rough, serious, exciting ...
Plot:
kidnapping, racism, terrorism, state affairs, political conspiracy, confined, danger, heroes, dishonesty, conspiracy, environmentalism, corruption ...
Time:
21st century
Place:
africa, nigeria
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, United Arab Emirates
Duration: 125 min.
Story:
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 a the lives of an immigrant and his family trying to expand their business and capitalize on ...
Style:
period piece, suspenseful, bleak, depressing, rough ...
Plot:
oil, mafia, american dream, immigrant, corruption, business ethics, organized crime, gangster, twists and turns, orthodox jew, winter, greed ...
Time:
year 2014, 2010s, 20th century, year 1981, 80s ...
Place:
new york, brooklyn new york city, usa, new jersey
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Genre: Comedy
Country: Canada
Duration: 26 min.
TV show
Story:
In a blue-collar community where the high stress of working in a refinery is balanced by the comedic high-wire antics of its plant workers, The Trades centres around pipefitter Todd and his sister and roommate, Audrey, who follows in her big ...
Style:
sitcom, satirical, entertaining, captivating, semi serious ...
Plot:
blue collar, oil rig, workplace situations, satire, coworker, oil company, job, workplace, oil refinery, oil industry, oil, small town ...
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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: Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.
Style:
suspense, captivating, independent film, black comedy, entertaining
Plot:
oil, contamination, businessman, environment, farmer, congressman, water, environmental destruction, legal action, environmental issue, oil company, oil industry ...
Place:
houston texas, los angeles, mexico
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
Based on the true events during the 2016 construction of the Dakota Access Pipeline that runs through the Standing Rock Indian Reservation in North Dakota on land that is owned by the Lakota “Sioux” Tribe. The film follows Daniel, a journalist ...
Style:
thrilling, captivating, psychological, serious, tense ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
investigative journalism, reporter, american indian, construction company, investigative reporter, native american reservation, indian reservation, intrigue, construction, problem, social problems, oil industry ...
Place:
north dakota, montana
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Genre: Comedy, Romance, Sport
Country: Colombia, Italy, Spain
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
The whimsical and joyous parade of ridiculous events satirize the war that rages in Colombia right now and exposes the real spirit of those who inhabit such a beautiful country.
Style:
tragicomedy, satirical, dark comedy, black comedy, whimsical
Audience:
adult
Plot:
satire, political satire, social satire, guerilla warfare, armed conflict, absurdism, small town, anti war, humanity, civil war, oil industry, irreverent ...
Place:
colombia
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Genre: Drama, Thriller
Country: Italy, France
Duration: 89 min.
Story:
Renzo Petrucci is forced to leave his job as general manager of a multinational oil company after corruption charges. Convinced that the woman who has taken his place has betrayed him, Renzo takes his revenge by killing her. Reinstated by the Board, ...
Style:
suspense, captivating, disturbing, dark, bleak ...
Plot:
corruption, revenge, murder, corporate conspiracy, murder of wife, oil tycoon, money, corrupt businessman, businessman, murderer, frame up, fight for justice ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
100 Days in the Jungle tells the amazing true story of Canadian oil workers who were kidnapped by Colombian rebels and marched through the Ecuadorian jungle for 100 days.
Style:
tense, suspense, disturbing, suspenseful, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
amazon jungle, jungle, hostage, kidnapping, survival, amazon rainforest, ransom, captive, kidnapped, abduction, partisan, amazon ...
Place:
colombia, ecuador
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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: Action, Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
A crew of young environmental activists execute a daring mission to sabotage an oil pipeline.
Style:
thrilling, captivating, tense, biting, suspense
Plot:
criminal conspiracy, environmental issue, environmental activist, environmentalist, felony, terrorism, activism, environmental, conspiracy, terrorist plot, terrorist attack, corporate greed ...
Place:
texas, long beach california, north dakota, portland oregon, usa
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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: Biography, Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 78 min.
Story:
1971 post civil rights San Francisco seemed like the perfect place for a black Korean War veteran and his family to realize their dream of economic independence, and a chance for him to be his own boss. Charlie Walker would soon find out how naive ...
Style:
disturbing, semi autobiographical, captivating, tense, inspirational ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
racism, racial discrimination, interracial relations, biopic, determination, underdog, political unrest, direction and purpose, coping, civil rights, black man, ambition ...
Place:
san francisco
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Genre: Crime, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 106 min.
Story:
Neeyln has always been the loyal enforcer for crime boss Harris back in London, taking care of problems and people that disrupt his illicit business. When Harris strikes a deal with an old friend -- American oilman Preston -- they find themselves in ...
Style:
tense, suspenseful, crime thriller, disturbing, dark ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
revenge, gangster, organized crime, criminal underworld, plan, conflict between friends, feud, gangster boss, money, friendship, death of girlfriend, betrayal by friend ...
Place:
west virginia
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Genre: Action, Crime, Mystery
Country: Russia
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story:
Somewhere in the Middle East, undercover agent Victor Bystroletov arrives in one of the oil kingdoms posing as an international journalist. His true goal is to contact a former terrorist named Javad. It has been several years since the holy warrior ...
Style:
tense, captivating, tension, suspense, serious ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
prospector, reconnaissance, terrorism, terrorist, spy thriller, espionage, behind enemy lines, gang, criminal, special agent, criminal gang, secret agent ...
Place:
middle east, russia
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