Mining movies and TV shows
The list contains the best, new and most relevant mining movies ordered by relevance. The recommendation service has sorted out realistic, serious, captivating, suspense, thought provoking and touching films and TV shows about / with mining, miner, mine, family relations, mentor, catastrophe, storytelling, redemption, survival and destiny plots mostly in Drama, Sci-Fi and Adventure genres shot in USA, UK, Spain and other countries.
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TOP 10 movies tagged as mining: Blood Diamond (2006), Gold (2016), The 33 (2015), North Country (2005), The 33 of San Jose (2010), Dune: Part One (2021), October Sky (1999), The Mine (2016), Dark Descent (2002), Germinal (1993).
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622K
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Country: USA, Germany, UK, South Africa, India
Duration: 143 min.
Story:
An ex-mercenary turned smuggler. A Mende fisherman. Amid the explosive civil war overtaking 1999 Sierra Leone, these men join for two desperate missions: recovering a rare pink diamond of immense value and rescuing the fisherman's son ...
Style:
serious, captivating, thought provoking, intense, emotional ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
civil war, treasure hunt, gem, mercenary, smuggling, greed, revolution, mining, rebel, journalism, life changing, rescue ...
Time:
year 2006, 90s, year 2003, 20th century, year 1999 ...
Place:
africa, sierra leone, zimbabwe, south africa, angola ...
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74K
Genre: Biography, Crime, Drama, Mystery
Country: USA
Duration: 120 min.
Story:
Kenny Wells, a modern-day prospector, hustler, and dreamer, is desperate for a lucky break. Left with few options, Wells teams up with an equally luckless geologist to execute a grandiose, last-ditch effort: to find gold deep in the uncharted jungle ...
Style:
inspirational, suspense, intellectual, suspenseful, anamorphic ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
jungle, business, gold, mining, greed, money, treasure hunt, business and finance, finance, justice, life philosophy, ethnic conflict ...
Time:
year 2016, 90s, 80s, year 1988
Place:
southeast asia, indonesia, new york, reno nevada
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42K
Genre: Biography, Drama, History
Country: Chile, Colombia, Spain, USA
Duration: 127 min.
Story:
Based on a true story about the collapse at the mine in San Jose, Chile that left 33 miners isolated underground for 69 days.
Style:
factual, suspense, touching, period piece, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
survival, rescue, disaster, life, catastrophe, stranded, natural disaster, hopes, doctor, honest, radio, trapped ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010, 70s, 21st century
Place:
chile, peru, south america, latin america, australia
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Genre: Drama
Country: USA
Duration: 126 min.
Story:
A fictionalized account of the first major successful sexual harassment case in the United States -- Jenson vs. Eveleth Mines, where a woman who endured a range of abuse while working as a miner filed and won the landmark 1984 lawsuit.
Style:
inspirational, sincere, emotional, factual, disturbing ...
Audience:
girls' night
Plot:
courtroom drama, feminism, sexual harassment, small town, lawsuit, rape, feminist, court, lawyer, labor union, courtroom, sexism ...
Time:
20th century, 90s, 70s, 80s
Place:
minnesota, usa
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Chile
Duration: 86 min.
Story:
A team of Chilean miners are trapped underground for months and hold out for a miraculous rescue.
Style:
suspense, exciting, touching, realistic, serious ...
Plot:
mine, cave, mining, working conditions, underground, miner, rescue, friendship between men, survival, rescue attempt, teamwork, perseverance ...
Time:
2010s, year 2010
Place:
chile
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA, Canada
Duration: 155 min.
Story:
A mythic and emotionally charged hero’s journey, “Dune” tells the story of Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure ...
Style:
cerebral, visually stunning, suspense, captivating, philosophical ...
Audience:
chick flick, adult
Plot:
desert, space opera, alien planet, politics, prophecy, messiah, premonition, outer space, survival, mind control, epic battle, desert planet ...
Time:
future, distant future, 2020s
Place:
space western
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111K
Genre: Biography, Drama, Family
Country: USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
Based on the true story of Homer Hickam, a coal miner's son who was inspired by the first Sputnik launch to take up rocketry against his father's wishes, and eventually became a NASA scientist.
Style:
inspirational, touching, realistic, sentimental, feel good ...
Audience:
teens, kids, family outing, date night, teen drama
Plot:
friendship, small town, teacher, follow your dream, teenage life, against the odds, competition, mathematics, generation gap, scientist, biopic, nerd ...
Time:
1950s, 50s, year 1957, year 1999, 90s ...
Place:
west virginia, virginia, usa, indianapolis indiana, appalachia ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Finland
Duration: 97 min.
Story:
A young and ambitious civil servant Jussi finds himself being in charge of the environmental permit of a huge nickel and uranium mine in Northern Finland. The Talvivaara mine, led by a charismatic globe trotting visioner Pekka Perä is introducing ...
Style:
suspenseful, tense, touching, suspense, exciting
Plot:
business, mining, investigation, nature, environmental issue, government, government official, politics, technology, corruption, politician, environment ...
Time:
2010s, 2000s
Place:
finland
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Genre: Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA, Bulgaria
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
Deep in the Mariana Sea Trench, a corporate underwater mining complex has been built - an industrial Atlantis. When an accident in a dry-dock chamber kills several miners an investigator is sent to find the cause and immediately finds out that it ...
Style:
psychological, serious, suspenseful, rough, scary ...
Plot:
investigation, uncover truth, law enforcement, danger, life is a bitch, rescue, escapades, underwater, mining, heroes, chases and races, violent content ...
Time:
21st century
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: France, Belgium, Italy
Duration: 160 min.
Story:
It's mid 19th century, north of France. The story of a coal miner's town. They are exploited by the mine's owner. One day the decide to go on strike, and then the authorities repress them
Style:
political, realistic, emotional, anthology, philosophical ...
Plot:
mining, outdoor sex, revolution, art, politics, business, french history, union, capitalism, fighting the system, anarchist, unemployment ...
Time:
19th century, victorian era, turn of the century, year 1993
Place:
france, europe, flanders, tokyo
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Genre: Drama
Country: Australia
TV show
Story:
Enter the dramatic and dangerous world of Australia's oldest and riskiest pursuit – mining. A mismatched team strive to save a struggling but proud Australian mining company, and in doing so, must overcome their own prejudice and fears while ...
Style:
psychological, captivating, thrilling, realistic, intense ...
Plot:
mining, labor, coal mine, job, problem, social problems, workplace situations, mining town, mine, miner, workplace, risk ...
Place:
australia
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Genre: Drama, Sci-Fi
Country: USA
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Explore an aspirational world where NASA and the space program remained a priority and a focal point of our hopes and dreams as told through the lives of NASA astronauts, engineers, and their families.
Style:
realistic, exciting, suspense, disturbing, stylized ...
Plot:
astronaut, space program, space race, nasa, mining, moon, ice, u.s. president, moon landing, space shuttle, moon base, lesbian ...
Time:
year 1969, future, 60s, 80s, 90s ...
Place:
usa, soviet union
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40K
Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: UK
Duration: 60 min.
TV show
Story:
Britain is in the grip of a chilling recession... falling wages, rising prices, civil unrest - only the bankers are smiling. It's 1783 and Ross Poldark returns from the American War of Independence to his beloved Cornwall to find his world in ...
Style:
captivating, family saga, costume drama, period piece, realistic ...
Audience:
family friendly
Plot:
countryside, estate, love affair, rich and poor, couple relations, love and romance, society, master and servant, poverty, social differences, family relations, english countryside ...
Time:
18th century, victorian era, 1790s, 19th century, 1800s ...
Place:
england, cornwall, britain
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Genre: Drama, History, War
Country: UK
Duration: 96 min.
Story:
During World War I, a group of British miners are recruited to tunnel underneath no man's land and set bombs from below the German front in hopes of breaking the deadly stalemate of the Battle of Messines.
Style:
thought provoking, tense, captivating, suspense, powerful
Plot:
world war one, military, miner, wartime, patriot, patriotism, mining, battles, heroic mission, showdown, fight, fight for supremacy ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Canada
Duration: 104 min.
Story:
Set in cold rural Quebec at Christmas time, we follow the coming of age of a young boy and the life of his family which owns the town's general store and undertaking business. Mon Oncle Antoine is Director Claude Jutra's masterpiece: A ...
Style:
art house, social, contemplative, emotional, touching ...
Plot:
coming of age, small town, christmas, foster child, mining, uncle nephew relationship, youth, countryside, boy, infidelity, loss of son, catholic priest ...
Time:
1940s, year 1971
Place:
canada, quebec
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21K
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: USA
Duration: 90 min.
Story:
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose ...
Style:
suspense, serious, suspenseful, space horror, exciting ...
Audience:
teens, boys' night
Plot:
space travel, outer space, space, robot, rescue, survival, space and aliens, danger, natural disaster, chess, spaceship, mining ...
Time:
future, 22nd century, year 2000, y2k
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27K
Genre: Adventure, Horror, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Thriller
Country: Italy, USA
Duration: 98 min.
Story:
Underwater deep-sea miners encounter a Soviet wreck and bring back a dangerous cargo to their base on the ocean floor with horrifying results. The crew of the mining base must fight to survive against a genetic mutation that hunts them down one by ...
Style:
scary, rough, exciting, suspense, cult classic ...
Audience:
boys' night, teens
Plot:
ship, experiment gone awry, sea, monster, creature feature, race against time, sea monster, creature, shipwreck, survival horror, suicide, ocean ...
Time:
80s
Place:
atlantic ocean, italy, rome italy
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Belgium, France
Duration: 168 min.
Story:
French adaption of DH Lawrence's infamous novel about forbidden passion across the class divide. Winner of the 2007 Cesar Award for Best Film.
Style:
sexy, erotic, romantic, touching, sincere ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
infidelity, lady, sex, husband wife relationship, extramarital affair, passion, female pubic hair, forbidden love, affair, sensuality, unhappy marriage, male nudity ...
Time:
year 2006, 1920s, 20th century
Place:
mediterranean sea, riviera, europe, france
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10K
Genre: Drama, History
Country: USA
Duration: 135 min.
Story:
Filmed in the coal country of West Virginia, "Matewan" celebrates labor organizing in the context of a 1920s work stoppage. Union organizer, Joe Kenehan, a scab named "Few Clothes" Johnson and a sympathetic mayor and police chief ...
Style:
political, independent film, talky, bleak, tense ...
Plot:
labor union, racism, working class, coal mining, small town, shootout, mining, coal mine, strike, revolution, revolutionary, american history ...
Time:
1920s, 20th century, year 1987
Place:
west virginia, appalachia, virginia, usa
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Genre: Biography, Drama, Music
Country: USA
Duration: 124 min.
Story:
Biography of Loretta Lynn, a country and western singer that came from poverty to fame.
Style:
sentimental, inspirational, touching, sweet, realistic ...
Plot:
country music, music, female protagonist, biopic, poverty, rags to riches, musician, dysfunctional marriage, musician's life, teenage pregnancy, price of fame, mining ...
Time:
1950s, 1940s, 70s, 20th century, 60s ...
Place:
kentucky, usa, nashville tennessee, appalachia, washington state
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Genre: Comedy, Musical, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 164 min.
Story:
A Michigan farmer and a prospector form a partnership in the California gold country. Their adventures include buying and sharing a wife, hijacking a stage, kidnapping six prostitutes, and turning their mining camp into a boom town. Along the way ...
Style:
sexual, cult classic, funny, semi serious, realistic ...
Audience:
adult
Plot:
polyamory, mining, broadway, gold rush, dancing, friendship, prostitute, old west, american history, loneliness, mormon, polygamy ...
Time:
19th century, 1840s
Place:
california, usa, michigan, australia
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Genre: Comedy, Drama, Music, Romance
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 108 min.
Story:
A small Yorkshire mining town is threatened with being shut down and the only hope is for the men to enter their Grimley Colliery Brass Band into a national competition. They believe they have no hope until Gloria appears carrying her Flugelhorn. At ...
Style:
sexy, feel good, emotional, touching, indie film ...
Plot:
brass band, relationships, small town, music, mining, competition, working class, singer, drinking, hospital, poverty, adulthood ...
Time:
90s, 20th century, year 1992, year 1996, 70s ...
Place:
england, northern england, europe, london, yorkshire ...
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Genre: Drama, Romance
Country: Norway
Duration: 35 min.
TV show
Story:
In the village of Utfjord, Sami Elin fights to preserve the pastures of the family that runs reindeer, but when she falls in love with Daniel, her values are put to the test.
Style:
feel good, entertaining, dramatic, exciting, captivating ...
Plot:
environmentalism, mining, environment, tradition, relationships, male female relationship, love, couples, couple relations, boyfriend girlfriend relationship, love affair, female protagonist ...
Time:
2020s
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151K
Genre: Drama, Music
Country: UK, France
Duration: 110 min.
Story:
Set against the background of the 1984 Miner's Strike, Billy Elliot is an 11 year old boy who stumbles out of the boxing ring and onto the ballet floor. He faces many trials and triumphs as he strives to conquer his family's set ways, ...
Style:
touching, inspirational, feel good, uplifting, emotional ...
Audience:
date night, family outing, kids, teens, girls' night ...
Plot:
coming of age, ballet, working class, father son relationship, dancing, audition, gay, childhood, friendship, follow your dream, lgbtq, poverty ...
Time:
20th century, y2k, year 2000, 90s, year 1985 ...
Place:
england, london, northern england, europe
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394K
Genre: Adventure, Family, Fantasy, Musical, Romance
Country: USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's ...
Style:
fairy tale, motion capture, surprise ending, psychological horror, psychotronic ...
Audience:
kids
Plot:
poison, princess, evil queen, tyrant, female antagonist, love, narcissism, vanity, cruelty, witch, jealous woman, tyranny ...
Time:
medieval times, middle ages
Place:
germany
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35K
Genre: Action, Crime, Sci-Fi, Thriller, Western
Country: UK, USA
Duration: 109 min.
Story:
Thriller about an honest marshal in a corrupt mining colony on Io, Jupiter's sunless third moon, who is determined to confront a violent drug ring even though it may cost him his life. After his wife angrily deserts him, he waits alone for the ...
Style:
atmospheric, suspenseful, futuristic, visually stunning, serious ...
Audience:
boys' night
Plot:
corruption, mining, jupiter the planet, spacesuit, alien, space opera, outer space, attempted murder, tough guy, courage, marital separation, video surveillance ...
Time:
future, year 1981, distant future
Place:
space western
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391
Genre: Drama
Country: Chile, Spain
Duration: 105 min.
Story:
In 1897, in Lota, Chile, in the face of long days, low pay, debts to the company store, unsafe and deadly working conditions, and widespread child labor, men try to establish a miners' association at one of the largest coal mines in the world. ...
Style:
serious, realistic, captivating, contemplative, epic ...
Plot:
working class, injustice, fighting the system, workplace, rebellion, rebelliousness, racism, love affair, family business, political unrest, workplace situations, life is a bitch ...
Time:
19th century, 1890s
Place:
chile
Is relevant?
Genre: Adventure
Country: USA
TV show
Story:
The new series follows three gold-mining "families" as they battle nature, machines and each other in a brutal race against time to get as much gold from the ground as possible before the icy frost of winter returns to shut them down.
Style:
entertaining, captivating, suspense, intense, dramatic ...
Plot:
gold, mining, nature, man versus nature, family relations, money problems, golddigger, kids and family, parents and children, showdown, coping, family problems ...
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Genre: Drama
Country: Spain, Argentina, Venezuela
Duration: 102 min.
Story:
Five miners buried in a gallery 600 meters deep.
Style:
disturbing, psychological, suspenseful, serious, dark ...
Plot:
underground, cannibalism, mine, tunnel, afterlife, mining, darkness, hallucination, trapped, stranded, group of friends, rescue mission ...
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Genre: Drama, Western
Country: USA
Duration: 93 min.
Story:
A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.
Style:
serious, realistic, emotional, stylized, tense ...
Plot:
family problems, family relations, rivalry, old west, siblings relations, farm, family life, civil war, mining, mine, modern west, modern western ...
Time:
19th century
Place:
new mexico, usa
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