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1. Killers of the Flower Moon (2023)
R | 206 min | Crime, Drama, History
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.
Director: Martin Scorsese | Stars: Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone, Jesse Plemons
Votes: 242,772
2. Deepwater Horizon (2016)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, History
A dramatization of the disaster in April 2010, when the offshore drilling rig called the Deepwater Horizon exploded, resulting in the worst oil spill in American history.
Director: Peter Berg | Stars: Mark Wahlberg, Kurt Russell, Douglas M. Griffin, James DuMont
Votes: 182,952 | Gross: $61.43M
3. The World Is Not Enough (1999)
PG-13 | 128 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
James Bond uncovers a nuclear plot while protecting an oil heiress from her former kidnapper, an international terrorist who can't feel pain.
Director: Michael Apted | Stars: Pierce Brosnan, Sophie Marceau, Robert Carlyle, Denise Richards
Votes: 210,159 | Gross: $126.94M
4. Chain Reaction (1996)
PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Drama, Sci-Fi
Two researchers in a green alternative energy project are put on the run when they are framed for murder and treason.
Director: Andrew Davis | Stars: Keanu Reeves, Morgan Freeman, Rachel Weisz, Fred Ward
Votes: 56,339 | Gross: $21.23M
5. Upside Down (I) (2012)
PG-13 | 109 min | Drama, Romance, Sci-Fi
Adam and Eden fell in love as teens despite the fact that they live on twinned worlds with gravities that pull in opposite directions. Ten years after a forced separation, Adam sets out on a dangerous quest to reconnect with his love.
Director: Juan Solanas | Stars: Jim Sturgess, Kirsten Dunst, Timothy Spall, Blu Mankuma
Votes: 73,994 | Gross: $0.10M
6. How to Blow Up a Pipeline (2022)
R | 104 min | Action, Crime, Drama
A crew of environmental activists plot a daring plan to disrupt an oil pipeline.
Director: Daniel Goldhaber | Stars: Ariela Barer, Kristine Froseth, Lukas Gage, Forrest Goodluck
Votes: 10,185
7. The Land That Time Forgot (2009 Video)
Not Rated | 88 min | Action, Adventure, Drama
Shipwrecked castaways stumble upon the mysterious island of Caprona in the Bermuda Triangle, confronting man-eating dinosaurs and a stranded German U-Boat crew while trying to escape.
Director: C. Thomas Howell | Stars: C. Thomas Howell, Timothy Bottoms, Lindsey McKeon, Darren Dalton
Votes: 2,206
8. On Deadly Ground (1994)
R | 101 min | Action, Adventure, Thriller
A blowout firefighter takes on an environmentally destructive oil corporation by causing many deaths and explosions in Alaska.
Director: Steven Seagal | Stars: Steven Seagal, Michael Caine, Joan Chen, John C. McGinley
Votes: 25,515 | Gross: $38.59M
9. Proof of Life (2000)
R | 135 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
Alice hires a professional negotiator to obtain the release of her engineer husband, who has been kidnapped by anti-government guerrillas in South America.
Director: Taylor Hackford | Stars: Meg Ryan, Russell Crowe, David Morse, Pamela Reed
Votes: 58,950 | Gross: $32.60M
10. I Heart Huckabees (2004)
R | 107 min | Comedy
A husband-and-wife team play detective, but not in the traditional sense. Instead, the happy duo helps others solve their existential issues, the kind that keep you up at night, wondering what it all means.
Director: David O. Russell | Stars: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Naomi Watts, Mark Wahlberg
Votes: 66,311 | Gross: $12.78M
11. World Without End (1956)
Approved | 80 min | Adventure, Romance, Sci-Fi
Astronauts returning from a voyage to Mars are caught in a time warp and are propelled into a post-Apocalyptic Earth populated by mutants.
Director: Edward Bernds | Stars: Hugh Marlowe, Nancy Gates, Nelson Leigh, Rod Taylor
Votes: 2,393
12. The Runner (I) (2015)
R | 90 min | Drama
In the aftermath of the 2010 BP oil spill, an idealistic but flawed politician is forced to confront his dysfunctional life after his career is destroyed in a sex scandal.
Director: Austin Stark | Stars: Nicolas Cage, Sarah Paulson, Peter Fonda, Connie Nielsen
Votes: 5,890
13. The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
G | 132 min | Comedy, Drama
Nice, eccentric, idealistic and slightly mad Countess Aurelia, who believes that the good must prevail over evil, decides to stand up to corrupt powerful leaders of Paris by putting them on trial with 'unwashed masses' as the jury.
Director: Bryan Forbes | Stars: Katharine Hepburn, Charles Boyer, Claude Dauphin, Edith Evans
Votes: 1,161
14. Black November (2012)
TV-14 | 95 min | Action, Crime, Drama
Inspired by true events, an oil-rich Nigerian community wages war against an oil corporation to protect their land from being destroyed. Rebels kidnap an American oil executive and demand that his corporation end the destruction.
Director: Jeta Amata | Stars: Mbong Amata, Enyinna Nwigwe, Hakeem Kae-Kazim, Anne Heche
Votes: 715
15. I Am Greta (2020)
TV-14 | 97 min | Documentary, Biography
The documentary follows Greta Thunberg, a teenage climate activist from Sweden, on her international crusade to get people to listen to scientists about the world's environmental problems.
Director: Nathan Grossman | Stars: Greta Thunberg, Svante Thunberg, Niclas Svenningsen, António Guterres
Votes: 8,383
16. Avalanche (1999)
PG-13 | 96 min | Action, Thriller
A helicopter pilot work with a husband and his wife in the frozen North tagging foxes for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an avalanche hits the group, the husband is killed and ... See full summary »
Director: Steve Kroschel | Stars: Thomas Ian Griffith, Caroleen Feeney, R. Lee Ermey, C. Thomas Howell
Votes: 706
17. Ask a Policeman (1939)
Not Rated | 83 min | Adventure, Comedy, Crime
The mirthful adventures of Police Sergeant Samuel Dudfoot and his two constables, Albert Brown and Jeremiah Harbottle, who stage a fabricated crime wave to save their jobs - then find themselves involved in the real thing.
Director: Marcel Varnel | Stars: Will Hay, Graham Moffatt, Moore Marriott, Glennis Lorimer
Votes: 1,030
18. Campbell's Kingdom (1957)
102 min | Adventure, Drama
Englishman Bruce Campbell (Dirk Bogarde) takes possession of his grandfather's Canadian land, but he faces various challenges such as disgruntled locals, a ruthless contractor, a new power dam, and his own bad health.
Director: Ralph Thomas | Stars: Dirk Bogarde, Stanley Baker, Michael Craig, Barbara Murray
Votes: 932
19. Crude (2009)
Unrated | 105 min | Documentary
The story of lawsuit by tens of thousands of Ecuadorans against Chevron over contamination of the Ecuadorean Amazon.
Director: Joe Berlinger | Stars: Dan Ashley, Pablo Fajardo, Kent Robertson, German Yanez
Votes: 868 | Gross: $0.17M
20. The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money & Power (1992– )
PG-13 | Documentary
The globe-spanning story of the oil industry from the first strikes of the 19th century through the Gulf War. The industry's colorful characters and oil's key role in 20th century history are brought to life by participants and historians.
Stars: Donald Sutherland, Daniel Yergin, Norman Cooley, Stephanie Cran
Votes: 166
21. L'Argent (1928)
195 min | Drama, Romance
The business tycoon Nicolas Saccard is nearly ruined by his rival Gunderman, when he tries to raise capital for his company. To push up the price of his stock, Saccard plans a publicity ... See full summary »
Director: Marcel L'Herbier | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Marie Glory, Pierre Alcover, Yvette Guilbert
Votes: 1,156
22. Fuel (2008)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
America is addicted to oil and it is time for an intervention. Enter Josh Tickell, a man with a plan and a Veggie Van, who is taking on big oil, big government, and big soy to find solutions in places few people have looked.
Director: Joshua Tickell | Stars: Laurie Lennard, Joshua Tickell, Larry David, Larry Hagman
Votes: 784 | Gross: $0.17M
23. The Oil Machine (2022)
82 min | Documentary
The Oil Machine explores our economic, historical and emotional entanglement with oil by looking at the conflicting imperatives around North Sea oil.
Director: Emma Davie | Stars: Rachael Alexander, Kevin Anderson, Emeka Emembolu, Ewan Gibbs
Votes: 131
24. Beyoncé Feat. Jay Z: Crazy in Love (2003 Music Video)
4 min | Music, Musical
Shawn Carter (Jay-Z) is in a car on Mission Road in L.A. As they approach the 4th Street bridge, Beyoncé Knowles (Beyoncé) is in the middle of the street. Beyoncé dances, Jay-Z raps, Beyoncé dances some more.
Director: Jake Nava | Stars: Carmit Bachar, Beyoncé, Jay-Z
Votes: 351
25. Oil & Water (I) (2014)
78 min | Documentary, Biography, News
'Oil & Water' is the story of two boys coming of age in the middle of one of the world's worst toxic disasters: the contamination of Ecuador's Amazon region by reckless oil drilling. Hugo ... See full summary »
Directors: Laurel Spellman Smith, Laurel Spellman Smith, Francine Strickwerda
Votes: 43
26. Oil Storm (2005 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 120 min | Drama, Thriller
Documentary-style footage reveals the aftermath of disastrous events that disrupt the flow of oil to the United States.
Director: James Erskine | Stars: Melody Chase, Liev Schreiber, Lance E. Nichols, Mark Krasnoff
Votes: 256
28. Train (1988)
111 min | Action, Drama, Thriller
The film is about a train carrying fuel for the army in 1979 during the revolution movement in Iran but with the help of revolutionary forces the train is redirected to a cold region of the... See full summary »
Director: Amir Ghavidel | Stars: Khosro Shakibai, Faramarz Gharibian, Enayat Bakhshi, Kan'an Kiani
Votes: 183
29. A Crude Awakening: The Oil Crash (2006 Video)
Not Rated | 84 min | Documentary
A theatrical documentary on the planet's dwindling oil resources.
Directors: Basil Gelpke, Raymond McCormack, Reto Caduff | Stars: Wade Adams, Abdul Samad Al-Awadi, Fadhil J. Al-Chalabi, Roscoe Bartlett
Votes: 1,999
30. The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion and the Collapse of the American Dream (2004)
Not Rated | 78 min | Documentary, War
The modern suburbs have ultimately become an unsustainable way of living. They were originally developed in an era of cheap oil, when the automobile became the center of the way people ... See full summary »
Director: Gregory Greene | Stars: Barrie Zwicker, James Howard Kunstler, Peter Calthorpe, Michael Klare
Votes: 1,028
31. Pump (2014)
PG | 88 min | Documentary
A documentary that tells the story of America's addiction to oil, from its corporate conspiracy beginnings to its current monopoly today, and explains clearly and simply how we can end it - and finally win choice at the pump.
Directors: Joshua Tickell, Rebecca Harrell Tickell | Stars: Adhemar Altieri, Greg Anderson, Edwin Black, David Blume
Votes: 658 | Gross: $0.07M
32. Highway Patrol (1938)
Approved | 56 min | Action, Adventure, Crime
Arrested for speeding by highway patrolman Bill Rolph (Robert Paige), J.W. Brady (Robert Middlemass), the president of an oil refinery, offers him the assignment to find the culprits who ... See full summary »
Director: Charles C. Coleman | Stars: Robert Paige, Julie Bishop, Robert Middlemass, Arthur Loft
Votes: 29
33. Flowing Gold (1940)
Approved | 81 min | Adventure, Drama, Romance
In the American oilfields, a fugitive from justice's destiny is intertwined with the fortunes and the misfortunes of a small oil company that hires him as a roughneck.
Director: Alfred E. Green | Stars: John Garfield, Frances Farmer, Pat O'Brien, Raymond Walburn
Votes: 522
34. La Red Nazi en México (2010 Video)
TV-14 | 43 min | Documentary, Short, History
In 1985 the documents on Nazism in Mexico during World War II were published. But what would be Hitler's interest in a country goes far from the war?
Director: Matías Gueilburt | Stars: Luciano Borges, Juan Alberto Cedillo, Manuel Diaz Cid, Alberto Mc Gregor Correa
Votes: 14
35. Shadow of the Holy Book (2007)
Not Rated | 90 min | Documentary
A look at how multinational corporations curried favor with Saparmurat Niyazov (1940-2006), the despot of oil- and gas-rich Turkmenistan, primarily through translating "Ruhnama," his ... See full summary »
Director: Arto Halonen | Star: Nastaran Nasirzadeh
Votes: 232
36. Born in Freedom: The Story of Colonel Drake (1954)
30 min | Drama, Short
In 1857 Edwin L. Drake is sent to investigate an oil seep in a creek near Titusville, Pennsylvania. After conferring with Dr. Brewer (the land owner) and Joel D. Angier (who devised a ... See full summary »
Director: Arthur Pierson | Stars: Vincent Price, Andy Clyde, Alan Hale Jr., Thurston Hall
Votes: 40
37. A Fire (1961)
24 min | Documentary, Short
An oil well is on fire near Ahvaz in the south of Iran and firemen are trying hard day and night to put it out.
Director: Ebrahim Golestan | Star: Myron Kinley
Votes: 168
38. Ta sainia (1982)
85 min | Comedy
A group of young people search for a missing ingredient to convert urine to gasoline.
Director: Hristos Kyriakopoulos | Stars: Nikos Tsoukas, Stathis Psaltis, Antonis Papadopoulos, Kaiti Finou
Votes: 101
39. Látástól vakulásig... (1980 TV Movie)
75 min | Comedy
Director: Sándor Szönyi G. | Stars: István Bujtor, József Székhelyi, András Ambrus, József Bars
Votes: 20
40. Among Thieves (2009)
TV-MA | 118 min | Thriller, War
Three friends, Victor, Amy and David, reunite after 10 years and uncover one of the key, hidden reasons for the war in Iraq.
Director: Paul H. Boge | Stars: David Dick, Meghan Duffy, Carey Smith, Tyhr Trubiak
Votes: 40
41. Crude Impact (2006)
Not Rated | 97 min | Documentary, History
An examination of the interconnection of human domination of the planet and the use of petroleum, and offers solutions for how we can stop our progression down this destructive path.
Director: James Jandak Wood | Stars: Thom Hartmann, William Rees, Richard Heinberg, Michael Economides
Votes: 261
42. Destination Earth (1956)
13 min | Animation, Short, Sci-Fi
A Martian explorer discovers the secrets behind the USA's prosperity: oil and free enterprise!
Director: Carl Urbano | Stars: Marvin Miller, Edmon Ryan
Votes: 148
43. Petropolis: Aerial Perspectives on the Alberta Tar Sands (2009)
Not Rated | 43 min | Documentary, Short
The huge tar sands in Alberta are a potentially profitable resource, but the environmental impact could be heavy and long-term.
Director: Peter Mettler
Votes: 204
44. Pigen fra Palls (1916)
67 min | Drama
Young Elly lives in the fishing town of Whitley as the foster daughter of the greedy merchant Brown. When Brown suddenly raises gasoline prices, the local fishermen revolt. The events ... See full summary »
Director: Eduard Schnedler-Sørensen | Stars: Alf Blütecher, Karen Caspersen, Emil Helsengreen, Frederik Jacobsen
45. Pete Roleum and His Cousins (1939)
Approved | 25 min | Animation, Short, Family
Pete illustrates the many uses of oil in daily life, showing that the world depends on it.
Director: Joseph Losey | Star: Charles R. Bowers
Votes: 120
46. Didi mtsvane veli (1967)
85 min | Drama, Family, Romance
When useful minerals are found in the valley, the herders are required to move. One of them, Sosana, can not cope with industrialization and is alienated from everybody, even his own family.
Director: Merab Kokochashvili | Stars: Dodo Abashidze, Lia Kapanadze, Mzia Maglakelidze, Ilia Bakakuri
Votes: 227
47. The Refugees of the Blue Planet (2006)
88 min | Documentary
For around ten years, natural disasters have been occurring more frequently, causing widespread destruction; yet industrialized countries still refuse to implement or persist in doubting ... See full summary »
Directors: Hélène Choquette, Jean-Philippe Duval | Star: Pascale Montpetit
Votes: 41
48. Prospecting for Petroleum (1946)
22 min | Documentary, Animation, Short
"This Is Oil, No.1: Prospecting For Petroleum" is an all stop-motion puppet animated film that tells the story of how oil is formed through ages of geological change, how it is found, extracted and put to use by man © Arnold Leibovit
Directors: Duke Goldstone, George Jordan | Stars: Conrad Nagel, H.B. Warner, Gayne Whitman, Will Wright
49. Crude: The Incredible Journey of Oil (2007)
Not Rated | 89 min | Documentary
From the food on our tables to the fuel in our cars, crude oil seeps invisibly into almost every part of our modern lives. Yet many of us have little idea of the incredible journey it has ... See full summary »
Director: Richard Smith | Stars: Richard Smith, Gary Lash, Jeremy Leggett, Hugh Jenkyns
Votes: 42
50. Goldiesel 007 'Goldfinger' Television Commercial (2001 Video)
1 min | Short, Fantasy
Director: Givon Snir