Tuya's Marriage (2006), Sorcerer (1977), Who Killed the Electric Car? (2006), Mad Max 2 (1981), The Last Winter (2006), Iraq in Fragments (2006), Oil Crash (2006), The Kingdom (2007) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Oil movies.
Storyline: An American, working for his oil company in China, disregards all but the company's interests. " The characters and the institution portrayed in the story are not actual but the product of fiction. The oil business was chosen because light has ever been symbolic of progress."—Michael Crew <m.crew@bbcnc.org.uk>
Plot Keywords: businessman, boss, wife, friend, customer, soldier, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: For six months of the year, renowned Spanish chef Ferran Adrià closes his restaurant El Bulli and works with his culinary team to prepare the menu for the next season. An elegant, detailed study of food as avant-garde art, EL BULLI: COOKING IN PROGRESS is a tasty peek at some of the world's most innovative and exciting cooking; as Adrià himself puts it, "the more bewilderment, the better!"—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: chef, star, charming, restaurant, kitchen, cooking, water ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In a hypothetical country in South America, Jeff Dawson and his partner Dutch Peterson have invested all their savings in a lease contract to explore oil. However, their expectation ruins when bandits blow the derrick of the oil well with dynamite and they get stranded in the town without any money. In despair, they accept the risky transportation of nitroglycerin to raise US$ 800.00 and Dutch is shot in the leg by road thieves; but Jeff discovers that their employer is a trickster and they area not paid for their job. When their former friend Paco Conway meets them, Jeff finds that he is a local tycoon and is married with Marina Conway, who had a past with him. Paco hires Jeff his foreman to help him with his eighteen oil wells while Dutch is recovering in the hospital. Meanwhile the criminals press Paco to pay US$ 50,000.00 otherwise they will blow his wells and Marina revives her love and desire for Jeff, leading the trio to a tragedy.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: oil driller, bandit, couple, former lover, partner, bleak, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: British agent Bulldog Drummond is assigned to stop a master criminal who uses beautiful women to do his killings.
Plot Keywords: investigator, nephew, businessman, executive, assassin, sexy woman, lighthearted ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: 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 sabotage, they eventually find love.—cactusjump
Plot Keywords: rancher, veteran, nemesis, henchman, ranch hand, love interest, brash ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: It's Tulsa, Oklahoma at the start of the oil boom and Cherokee Lansing's rancher father is killed in a fight with the Tanner Oil Company. Cherokee plans revenge by bringing in her own wells with the help of oil expert Brad Brady and childhood friend Jim Redbird. When the oil and the money start gushing in, both Brad and Jim want to protect the land but Cherokee has different ideas. What started out as revenge for her father's death has turned into an obsession for wealth and power.—A.L.Beneteau <albl@inforamp.net>
Plot Keywords: rancher, oil baron, daughter, emotional, powerful, oklahoma, oil field ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: This conspiracy thriller is set in the early 80's, 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 professional diver, Petter, obsessed with reaching the bottom of the Norwegian Sea has the discipline, strength and courage to take on the world's most dangerous mission. But a sudden, tragic accident changes everything. Petter is sent on a perilous journey where he loses sight of who's pulling the strings. Gradually he realizes that he is in way over his head and that his life is at stake.—Websurfer
Plot Keywords: diver, suspenseful, norway, experiments, oil, business ethics, pursuit ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Lopez is a bandit who has stolen the herd at Gil's ranch, so Hardy is about to foreclose. But Lucia has come back from New York and Gil is happy until he meets her husband, Morgan. Saying that they are friends, Morgan wants to buy the ranch before Hardy forecloses, and Gil will sell, but Lopez shows up with all his men and holds them all captive. Lopez has his own law, carried out with a 44 - and he plans to settle everything according to his vision of life.—Tony Fontana <tony.fontana@spacebbs.com>
Plot Keywords: rancher, uncle, bandit, banker, old flame, husband, positive ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: When the government opens up the Oklahoma territory for settlement, restless Yancey Cravat claims a plot of the free land for himself and moves his family there from Wichita. A newspaperman, lawyer, and just about everything else, Cravat soon becomes a leading citizen of the boom town of Osage. Once the town is established, however, he begins to feel confined once again, and heads for the Cherokee Strip, leaving his family behind. During this and other absences, his wife Sabra must learn to take care of herself and soon becomes prominent in her own right.—George S. Davis <mgeorges@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: editor, wife, prostitute, servant, outlaw, native american, rousing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: The British send an American and a war hero to kidnap and hide an oil-country prince.
Plot Keywords: colonel, american, prince, woman, accomplice, amusing, madcap ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: McAllister (Ole Olsen and Hamilton (Chic Johnson)are a couple of con-men who travel about the country selling worthless stock to small town citizens. They come to Chesterville where they see a potential sucker list in the local war-veteran's home. They sell shares to the vets in a local worthless oil-field. McAllister falls in love with the widowed-owner of their hotel, Louise Heath (Lila Lee)who persuades him to give up his shady dealings. But before he can convince his partner the townspeople catch on to their scheme and decide jail is the place for them.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: con artist, secretary, hotel owner, deputy, partner, investor, cheeky ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Four men take on the dangerous mission of driving two nitroglycerin-laden trucks through harsh terrain.
Plot Keywords: driver, worker, tense, gritty, south america, oil field, mountain ...
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