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, realistic, serious, tense, suspenseful and suspense films and TV shows about / with oil industry, oil, husband wife relationship, betrayal, danger, family relations, dishonesty, death, money and murder plots mostly in Drama, Thriller and Crime genres shot in USA, Norway, UK and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as oil industry: State of Happiness (2018), The Burning Sea (2021), Pioneer (2013), Deepwater Horizon (2016), There Will Be Blood (2007), Blood & Oil (2015), Dallas (1978), Everyone Else (2016), Dallas (2012), Ice (2011).

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State of Happiness (2018)
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: captivating, suspense, disturbing, tense, period piece
Plot: oil, oil industry, politics, class differences, financial problem, intrigue, coastal town, changing lives, port, post war, women, secretary ...
Time: 70s, 60s, 20th century
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The Burning Sea (2021)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: Norway
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: suspenseful, captivating, disturbing, tense, suspense
Plot: disaster, oil rig, catastrophe, north sea, submarine, ocean, oil industry, sea, natural disaster, rescue mission, trapped, trap ...
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 6.0
 5K
Pioneer (2013)
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, oil field ...
Time: 20th century, 80s, 70s
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Deepwater Horizon (2016)
Genre: Action, Drama, History, Thriller
Country: USA, Hong Kong, China
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: exciting, suspense, tense, compassionate, realistic ...
Audience: family friendly
Plot: disaster, natural disaster, survival, catastrophe, trapped, oil, oil rig, sea, courage, rescue, heroism, fire ...
Time: year 2016, 2010s, year 2010, 21st century
Place: louisiana
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
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, suspense, disturbing, cerebral, epic ...
Audience: adult
Plot: oil, greed, character study, ambition, capitalism, money, rise to the top, rivalry, visceral, psychopath, religion, business ...
Time: 20th century, 1900s, 1910s, 1920s, 19th century ...
Place: california, texas, los angeles, america, persia ...
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 6.6
 4K
Blood & Oil (2015)
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 competition, oil, ambition, husband wife relationship, business deal, blackmail, industrialist, police investigation, murder ...
Place: north dakota
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 7.1
 16K
Dallas (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: The world's first mega-soap, and one of the most popular ever produced, Dallas had it all. Beautiful women, expensive cars, and men playing Monopoly with real buildings. Famous for one of the best cliffhangers in TV history, as the world asked ...
Style: soap opera, serious, realistic, melancholic, uplifting ...
Plot: family feud, mogul, oil industry, family relations, family business, hypocrisy, uninhibited rivalry, ambition, couple relations, rich and poor, parents and children, husband wife relationship ...
Time: 70s, 20th century, 80s, 90s
Place: texas, usa, dallas texas, southern usa
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 7.3
 51K
Everyone Else (2016)
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Country: Germany, Austria, Monaco, Romania, France, Switzerland
Duration: 162 min.
Story: Without warning a father comes to visit his daughter abroad. He believes that she lost her humor and therefore surprises her with a rampage of jokes.
Style: realistic, emotional, melancholic, art house, satirical ...
Plot: father daughter relationship, estranged daughter, father daughter conflict, birthday party, parenthood, ambitious woman, culture clash, practical joke, sex with coworker, life, capitalism, awkward situation ...
Time: 2010s, year 2016
Place: romania, germany, bucharest, bulgaria
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 7.2
 11K
Dallas (2012)
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 feud, family secret, oil industry, family problems, uninhibited rivalry, intrigue, rivalry, dishonesty ...
Time: 2010s, 21st century
Place: texas, southern usa, usa, dallas texas
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 4.5
 2K
Ice (2011)
Genre: Action, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: UK, New Zealand
Duration: 184 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: disaster, climate change, forces of nature, ecological disaster, evacuation, survival, iceberg, danger, escapades, storm, chaos, chaos and mayhem ...
Time: future, 21st century
Place: antarctica, greenland
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 5.0
 2K
The Deal (2005)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Canada, USA
Duration: 107 min.
Story: A political thriller steeped in illegal oil trading, the Russian Mafia, and governmental cover-ups.
Style: tense, realistic, serious, suspenseful
Plot: wall street, evil corporation, oil industry, politics, political intrigue, fighting the system, legal investigation, uncover truth, rivalry, political corruption, society, betrayal ...
Time: year 2005, future
Place: new york, usa, manhattan new york city
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Partly Cloudy with Sunny Spells (2015)
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, funny, entertaining, semi serious, captivating
Plot: oil, oil field, money problems, money, oil rig, satire, escapades, oil industry, oil well
Place: italy
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Fueled: The Man They Called 'Pirate' (2016)
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, thought provoking, captivating
Plot: post war japan, oil, oil company, historical figure, oil tycoon, oil industry, cartel, contamination, world war two, japanese woman
Place: japan, iran
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 7.1
 210
Iron Island (2018)
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: disturbing, sincere, psychological, captivating, nautical
Plot: workplace situations, co worker co worker relationship, family problems, family relations, relationships, male female relationship, coworker, relationship problems, oil well, workplace, husband wife relationship, oil industry ...
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 7.5
 7K
The Son (2017)
Genre: Drama, History, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 44 min.
TV show
Story: The multigenerational epic follows two concurrent time periods: One, the story of young Eli McCullough after he is kidnapped and indoctrinated into a tribe of Comanches in 1849. The other, 60 years later, when we see a grown Eli struggle to maintain ...
Style: tense, captivating, rough, suspenseful, historical drama ...
Plot: native american, oil tycoon, oil, showdown, racism, family business, modern western, wild west, modern west, money, problem solving, family problems ...
Time: victorian era, 2010s
Place: texas, southern usa, america
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The Devil Has a Name (2019)
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
Plot: oil, contamination, farmer, environment, congressman, water, legal action, environmental destruction, oil company, environmental issue, environmental health, showdown ...
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How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
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, suspense
Plot: environmental activist, environmental issue, criminal conspiracy, environmentalist, terrorism, activism, felony, environmental, conspiracy, ecology, terrorist plot, terrorist attack ...
Place: texas, long beach california, north dakota, portland oregon
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 6.2
 60
Broken (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Country: Argentina, Uruguay
Duration: 120 min.
Story: A policewoman returns with her young daughter to her hometown to care for her dying mother. The murder of a young girl will keep her there longer than expected. She will try to solve a case that no one seems to care about, risking everything on the ...
Style: neo noir, psychological, captivating, thrilling
Plot: mother daughter relationship, police detective, female protagonist, murder, policewoman, police, police investigation, murderer, police officer, murder investigation, life is a bitch, murder mystery ...
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Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
Genre: Crime, Drama, History, Mystery, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 206 min.
Story: When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Style: thrilling, suspenseful, captivating, detective, psychological ...
Plot: native american, murder, courtroom, greed, genocide, fbi, true crime, oil, interracial marriage, investigation, modern western, serial murder ...
Time: 1920s, 20th century
Place: oklahoma
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Comes a Horseman (1978)
Genre: Drama, Romance, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 118 min.
Story: 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 ...
Style: realistic, serious, sincere
Plot: world war two, modern western, cowboy, oil, nature, indians, modern west, scenery, rivalry, strong female character, strong female lead, ranch ...
Time: 1940s, year 1978, 20th century, year 1945
Place: montana, usa, colorado
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 6.9
 900
Lone Star (2010)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story: Lone Star is an American drama television series which originally ran on Fox from September 20, 2010 to September 27, 2010, airing Monday nights at 9 pm ET/PT. Fox announced Lone Star's cancellation on September 28, 2010 after two low-rated ...
Style: realistic, serious, captivating, disturbing
Plot: love triangle, hidden identity, betrayal, family business, society, love and romance, couple relations, dishonesty, success, couples, thief, cons and scams ...
Time: 21st century
Place: texas, usa, houston texas
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 6.5
 6K
Hellfighters (1968)
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, exciting, serious, rough, surprise ending
Audience: boys' night
Plot: firefighter, oil, firefighting, disaster, family relations, danger, heroes, oil well, love interest, daring rescue, race against time, fire ...
Time: 20th century, 60s
Place: usa, malaysia, acapulco mexico, venezuela, houston texas ...
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Genre: Drama, History, Thriller, War
Country: USA
Duration: 140 min.
Story: Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of infiltrating and surveying Nazi Germany.
Style: retro, political thriller, captivating, tense, serious ...
Plot: world war two, espionage, nazi, dominatrix, politics, international relations, wartime, youth, nazi germany, secret agent, forgery, dishonesty ...
Time: year 1962, 20th century, 1940s, year 1942
Place: germany, europe, hamburg germany, copenhagen, berlin germany ...
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 6.6
 183
The Curse (1973)
Genre: Drama
Country: Iran
Duration: 100 min.
Story: An old man who works for a landlord brings a young worker to paint the house for him. The old landlord is alcoholic and has a young wife and together they manage a ranch. Little by little ...
Plot: husband wife relationship, alcoholism, domestic abuse, unfaithfulness, murderer, island life, wife abuse, aborigine, house, scandal, oil well, wife murders husband ...
Time: 70s
Place: persia, iran
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 4.6
 2K
Dark Souls (2010)
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Country: Norway, France
Duration: 95 min.
Story: A young girl, Johanna, is attacked and seemingly murdered. Her father receives a phone call from the police pronouncing her dead as he sees her walk in the front door of their house. Strange things begin to happen to Johanna; she is disorientated ...
Style: scary, serious, rough, suspenseful, cult horror ...
Plot: zombie, supernatural, murder, infection, uncover truth, psychopath, gory, danger, police investigation, vengeance, kids in trouble, dark humor ...
Time: 21st century
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The Water Engine (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 110 min.
Story: In the 1930s, Charles Lang invents an engine that runs using water for fuel. But when he tries to get it patented, he is first offered a ridiculously low amount. When he refuses, he is suddenly several people are pressuring him to sell. The big oil ...
Plot: law, world's fair, oil industry, oil company, water, invention, patent, motor, fuel
Time: 1930s
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 8.3
 10K
State of Play (2003)
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery, Romance, Thriller
Country: UK
Duration: 312 min.
TV show
Story: A thriller set in London, in which a politician's life becomes increasingly complex as his research assistant is found dead on the London Underground and, in a seemingly unrelated incident, a teenage pickpocket is shot dead.
Style: political thriller, political, realistic, tense, suspense ...
Plot: conspiracy, journalism, politics, murder, journalist, corruption, twists and turns, political corruption, manipulation, moral ambiguity, state affairs, political conspiracy ...
Time: 21st century
Place: england, britain, europe, london, manchester
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 5.6
 3K
The Formula (1980)
Genre: Crime, Thriller
Country: West Germany, USA
Duration: 117 min.
Story: A detective uncovers a formula that was devised by the Nazis in WW II to make gasoline from synthetic products, thereby eliminating the necessity for oil--and oil companies. A major oil company finds out about it and tries to destroy the formula and ...
Style: tense, serious, realistic, suspenseful, neo noir ...
Plot: oil, money, investigation, murder, world war two, espionage, police detective, dishonesty, danger, intrigue, uncover truth, state affairs ...
Time: year 1980, 1940s
Place: rome italy, haiti, west germany, hamburg germany, berlin germany ...
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Dead Ahead: The Exxon Valdez Disaster (1992)
Genre: Drama
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story: The real-life struggle to contain the environmental and financial damage caused to Alaska by the oil spill from the Exxon Valdez is dramatized.
Style: political
Plot: environmental, ecology, boss, disaster, senator, scandal, environmentalism, corruption, corporate greed, ship captain, oil industry, conservation ...
Time: year 1989
Place: alaska
Is relevant ?
 7.0
 239K
Body of Lies (2008)
Genre: Action, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, UK
Duration: 128 min.
Story: The CIA’s hunt is on for the mastermind of a wave of terrorist attacks. Roger Ferris is the agency’s man on the ground, moving from place to place, scrambling to stay ahead of ever-shifting events. An eye in the sky – a satellite link – ...
Style: clever, political, exciting, tense, realistic ...
Audience: boys' night, chick flick
Plot: terrorism, spy, cia, espionage, cia agent, terrorist, intelligence agency, secret service, government agency, conspiracy, danger, politics ...
Time: year 2008, 21st century
Place: middle east, iraq, jordan, syria, virginia ...
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