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: Married to and in love with disabled peasant Ba'toer, Tuya (Yu Nan) is forced to divorce him and find a new husband to support both them and their two children when an injury leaves her unable to work. After a series of men refuse to look after Ba'toer, Tuya finds herself torn between wealthy, recently divorced oilman and schoolmate Bao'lier, who promises to provide for her husband's medical care, and her neighbor, Sen'ge, whose wife has recently left him.
Plot Keywords: wife, husband, wealthy man, neighbor, son, bleak, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A gangster, a crooked banker, a hitman and an arab terrorist are stranded and on the run in a small village in South America. Their only chance of escape is to drive two trucks filled with unstable nitroglycerin up a long and rocky mountain road in order to plug an escalating oil refinery blaze. With their deadly cargo likely to explode at the slightest bump, the four men must put aside their differences and work together to survive.
Plot Keywords: assassin, terrorist, bank robber, banker, guerrilla fighter, truck driver, bleak ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: With gasoline prices approaching $4/gallon, fossil fuel shortages, unrest in oil producing regions around the globe and mainstream consumer adoption and adoption of the hybrid electric car (more than 140,000 Prius' sold this year), this story couldn't be more relevant or important. The foremost goal in making this movie is to educate and enlighten audiences with the story of this car, its place in history and in the larger story of our car culture and how it enables our continuing addiction to foreign oil. This is an important film with an important message that not only calls to task the officials who squelched the Zero Emission Vehicle mandate, but all of the other accomplices, government, the car companies, Big Oil, even Eco-darling Hydrogen as well as consumers, who turned their backs on the car and embrace embracing instead the SUV. Our documentary investigates the death and resurrection of the electric car, as well as the role of renewable energy and sustainable living in our country's future; issues which affect everyone from progressive liberals to the neo-conservative right.—Richard D. Titus
Plot Keywords: narrator, george w. bush, profound, rousing, california, washington, d.c., global warming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Wandering the deserted highways of an energy-starved dystopian Australia after eradicating the Night Rider's followers in Mad Max (1979), the former patrolman, Max Rockatansky, finds himself roaming the endless wasteland scavenging for food and precious petrol. Suddenly, in the scorched wilderness, the hungry for fuel Max chances upon a small oil refinery; however, the place is under siege by Lord Humungus' barbarian horde of biker warlords, hell-bent on destruction and mayhem. Now, to get his hands on as much gas as he can carry, "Mad" Max will have to provide the defenceless community with a powerful truck to transport the gasoline to safety; nevertheless, this is easier said than done. Is Max, the battle-scarred Road Warrior, up to the task?
Plot Keywords: vigilante, tribal leader, enemy, brash, creepy, unrestrained, australia ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An environmental-impact officer (James Le Gros) and members (Ron Perlman, Connie Britton) of an oil-drilling team feel Mother Nature's wrath at an Arctic outpost.
Plot Keywords: monster, worker, doctor, dark, suspenseful, alaska, hospital ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Iraq in Fragments illuminates post-war Iraq in three acts, building a picture of a country pulled in different directions by religion and ethnicity. Filmed in verité style with no scripted narration, the film explores the lives of ordinary Iraqis to illustrate and give background to larger trends in Iraqi society.—James Longley
Plot Keywords: farmer, child, boss, intense, gripping, moving, solemn ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1956, geologist Marion King Hubbard proposed the peak oil theory: Once easily extractable oil reserves are depleted, demand will exceed supply and the natural-gas-dependent global economy will eventually collapse. This documentary argues that Hubbard was correct, drawing upon the testimony of a wide range of experts, concluding oil supplies will peak by 2020 and that alternative energy solutions will not be found quickly enough to provide a viable alternative.
Plot Keywords: geologist, congressman, banker, professor, car dealer, government official, disheartening ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: After a terrorist attack on an American housing compound in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, where families and FBI Agent Francis Manner are murdered, FBI agent Ronald Fleury blackmails the Saudi Arabian consul to get five days of investigation in the location. He travels with agent Grant Sykes, Janet Mayes and Adam Leavitt to avenge their friend and try to find those responsible for the bombing. The agents find all sorts of difficulties in their investigation, but they are supported by Colonel Faris Al Ghazi that advises the team how to act in a hostile environment.
Plot Keywords: special agent, fbi agent, forensic expert, technician, reporter, police officer, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Khodorkovsky, the richest Russian, challenges President Putin. A fight of the titans begins. Putin warns him. But Khodorkovsky comes back to Russia knowing that he will be imprisoned, once he returns. When I heard about it, I asked myself: why didn't he stay in exile with a couple of billions? Why did he do that? A personal journey to Khodorkovsky.—Anonymous
Plot Keywords: tycoon, criminal, president, engaging, jet, berlin, storm ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Sven Hanson is one of a number of farmers whom Ed McNeil wants to run off their land (because he knows there's oil on it). When Hanson is murdered by McNeil's gunman, Johnny Crale, Hanson's friend Pepe Mirada hides his knowledge of the murderer's identity in order to protect his family. When Hanson's son George arrives and takes up his father's cause, not only Mirada but also Johnny Crale begin to reevaluate their attitudes.—Jim Beaver <jumblejim@prodigy.net>
Plot Keywords: whaler, land baron, sheriff, gunslinger, father, gutsy, raw ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Martin Vinge, (35), former notorious journalist, now successful headhunter with a complicated personal life, is in all confidentiality contacted by 85 year-old N.F. Sieger, S.E.O. of Denmark's largest shipping company and oil empire. Sieger hires Martin to find an alternative heir to the firm instead of his son, Daniel Sieger, who for a long time has been destined to take the company into the next era. Martin starts coming up with suitable names for the position, but discovers that he has actually been entangled in a larger impenetrable power game aimed at deciding what is really going to happen to the company; a brutal power struggle that puts an intense pressure on Martin and his private life and relationships.—Nordisk Film
Plot Keywords: journalist, successor, talent scout, thrilling, denmark, money, oil ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father signs a lease agreement with an oil company which brings a derrick into their corner of the bayou.—Shannon Patrick Sullivan <shannon@mun.ca>
Plot Keywords: young boy, father, mother, oil driller, calm, louisiana, bayou ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In trying to elude the police on believing he will not get a fair shake in a case of self defense in killing a man in Oklahoma, John Alexander is going by the assumed name Johnny Blake while he looks for work as a roughneck traveling from oil field to oil field across the country, he believing he can make some money while blending in with the crowd. In the process he meets and befriends an oil rig foreman, Hap O'Connor, that friendship on Hap's side because of Johnny coming to his aid, and despite Hap knowing about the police looking for him for the murder rap. In a later situation, Hap reunites with an old friend, Wildcat Chalmers, who is looking for men to help dig a new well, which is made all the more difficult in his arch enemy, Charles Hammond, doing whatever he can to prevent him from striking oil. In working for Hammond, Johnny is also reunited with Hap and changes his allegiances when he learns that Hammond's actions are meant to hurt Wildcat and by association his friend Hap, with who he also joins forces. Johnny and Hap's friendship is threatened when a love triangle forms, the third being Wildcat's daughter, Linda Chalmers, who grew up around the oil fields and knows her away around the men who work on such. While Hap has always been in love with Linda without really expressing it, Johnny also falls for her but doesn't act on it in knowing Hap's feelings for her. What happens with this triangle and Hap and Johnny's friendship is affected by Johnny's past and the goings on with the well, including if they strike oil.—Huggo
Plot Keywords: fugitive, foreman, friend, girlfriend, enemy, police officer, uneasy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Game Warden Roy Rogers (Roy Rogers) finds the remains of a slaughtered fawn which has been killed by two prison escapees, Bob Oliver (Robert Bice) and Del Roberts (Douglas Fowley.) He finds the sheriff of Susanna Pass is sick and has to take on the task of tracking them down himself, and gets more hindrance than help from ex-bullfighter Carlos Mendoza (Martin Garralaga) and his daughter Rita (Estelita Rodriguez.) Roy checks with local newspaper owner Martin Masters (Robert Emmett Keane)who professes ignorance of the whereabouts of the hunted men, though he is actually in cahoots with Roberts. The latter shows up after Roy leaves and tells Masters he has knifed Bob and left him for dead in the woods. The two have a scheme for dynamiting the lake and hatchery property for the oil underneath, and disposing of the property owner Russell Masters (Francis Ford), Martin's brother, and taking title of the property. At the inquest, after the murder of Russell, Martin is surprised to find that a recent will made by Russell, has left the property to his assistant Kay "Doc" Parker (Dale Evans.)—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: engineer, sheriff, newspaper owner, business owner, deputy, spirited, suspenseful ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: In 1946, ex-Navy engineer Steve Martin comes to a Louisiana town with a dream: to build a safe platform for offshore oil drilling. Having finessed financing from a big oil company, formerly penniless Steve and his partner Johnny are in business...and getting interested in shrimp-boat captain Rigaud's two lovely daughters. But opposition from the fishing community grows fast, led by Stella Rigaud. Other hazards include sabotage, a hurricane...and a treacherous board of directors.—Rod Crawford <puffinus@u.washington.edu>
Plot Keywords: oil driller, oil worker, fisherman, daughter, sister, love interest, engaging ...
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