Highest-Rated Movies about 'Oil Rig', Sort by Popularity

The Secret Life of Words (2005), The Best of Me (2014), Spoilers of the Plains (1951), Joe Dirt (2001), Sector 7 (2011), On Deadly Ground (1994), Nautilus (1999), The Rig (2010) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Oil Rig movies.

#1. The Secret Life of Words (2005)

Storyline: Hannah, who wears a hearing aid, is forced to go on holiday. On holiday she manages to find a job: caring for Josef, a burn victim on an oil rig who temporarily lost his sight, until he's stable enough to be transferred. There is almost no one on the rig, except a cook, an oceanographer and a few others out at sea. Hannah tends to Josef and he slowly breaks her shell of silence.

Plot Keywords: nurse, patient, volunteer, emotional, oil rig, secret life, words ...

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#2. The Best of Me (2014)

Storyline: Amanda and Dawson are soul mates who met as teens and were from different backgrounds. But circumstances would force them to part ways. 20 years later they are brought back together by the passing of a mutual friend. So they go back home to fulfill his final wishes and they run into each other. While Amanda is married, albeit unhappily, she still has feelings for Dawson but can't forgive him for pushing her away.

Plot Keywords: former lover, friend, father, co-worker, classmate, brooding, emotional ...

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#3. Spoilers of the Plains (1951)

Storyline: Roy runs a pipeline and near by is a rocket missile site. Camwell is after one of the missiles and to gain access to the site, steals oil from Roy's pipeline to sell. When the next missile is fired, Camwell is ready. He finds the missile, takes the data box, and replaces it with explosives set to go off just as the missile is returned to the site.—Maurice VanAuken <mvanauken@a1access.net>

Plot Keywords: cowboy, oil baron, spy, roy rogers, partner, thrilling, frenetic ...

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#4. Joe Dirt (2001)

Storyline: Joe Dirt is a janitor with a mullet hairdo, acid-washed jeans and a dream to find the parents that he lost at the Grand Canyon when he was a belligerent, trailer park-raised eight-year-old. Now, blasting Van Halen in his jacked-up economy car, the irrepressibly optimistic Joe hits the road alone in search of his folks. As his wandering, misguided search takes him from one hilarious misadventure to another, Joe finds his way to Los Angeles, where a shock-jock brings Joe on his radio show to insult him. But as Joe's life story unfolds, jeers turn to cheers, and an entire captivated city tunes in to hear the adventures of Joe Dirt.

Plot Keywords: janitor, radio dj, love interest, bully, ex-mobster, talk show host, hysterical ...

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#5. Sector 7 (2011)

Storyline: Something awaits 2,500 meters under the deep sea off the southern tip of Jeju Island...Directed by Kim Ji-hoon and produced by JK Youn, the sci-fi action thriller Sector 7 revolves around an oil rig crew forced to battle a deadly creature at sea.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: monster, manager, engaging, oil rig, deep sea, battle, movies ...

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#6. On Deadly Ground (1994)

Storyline: Forrest Taft (Steven Seagal) is an environmental Agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt C.E.O., Michael Jennings (Sir Michael Caine), is the kind of person who doesn't care whether or not oil spills into the ocean or onto the land, just as long as it's making money for him. He even makes commercials that make him look like he cares about the environment. Jennings is almost finished with building his new state-of-the art oil rig: AEGIS-1. The problem is that if he doesn't finish building the rig in thirteen days, the land rights will be returned to the Eskimos and the Alaskan Government. When Jennings finds out that Taft's best friend Hugh Palmer (Richard Hamilton) has a computer disk that contains information about defective equipment on AEGIS-1, he sends out his goons to murder Palmer. When Taft tries to interfere, Jennings tries to kill Taft. But an Eskimo woman named Masu (Joan Chen), who introduces Taft to her father Silook (Chief Irvin Brink), ...

Plot Keywords: thug, oil baron, eskimo, father, marksman, brash, campy ...

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#8. The Rig (2010)

Storyline: As a hurricane rages outside, the small but experienced crew of an oil drilling rig settles in to ride out the storm. Isolated on the rig, their calm is short lived when a crew member goes missing and an extensive search proves futile. Slowly, they discover that a deadly creature is stalking the skeleton crew, eliminating them one by one. Surrounded by nothing but raging ocean, their communication severed and no way off the rig, the roughnecks try to survive the stormy night with an unrelenting force of death hunting them down.—Producer

Plot Keywords: monster, sea creature, sea captain, sailor, gory, brutal, suspenseful ...

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