Sarah's Oil

2025

English

♡ 7

83%

98%

based on novel or book

Sarah Rector, an African-American girl born in Oklahoma Indian Territory in the early 1900s, believes there is oil beneath the barren land she’s allotted, and her faith is proven right. As greedy oil sharks close in, Sarah turns to her family, friends, and some Texas wildcatters to maintain control of her oil-rich land, eventually becoming among the nation's first female African-American millionaires—at eleven years old.

Hellfighters

1968

English

6.5

♡ 8

13%

Andrew V. McLaglen Director

Valentin de Vargas as Amal Bokru

Alan Caillou as Harry York

Vera Miles as Madelyn Buckman

Ethelreda Leopold as Restaurant Patron

The adventures of oil well fire specialist Chance Buckman (based on real-life Red Adair), who extinguishes massive fires in oil fields around the world.

Comes a Horseman

1978

English

6.3

♡ 13

67%

Alan J. Pakula Director

Mark Harmon as Billy Joe Meynert

Jane Fonda as Ella Connors

James Caan as Frank 'Buck' Athearn

Basil Hoffman as George Bascomb

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.

'Neath the Arizona Skies

1934

English

5.1

♡ 9

27%

Harry L. Fraser Director

Herman Hack as Henchman

Eddie Parker as Henchman Asking Chris for Nina

Shirley Jean Rickert as Nina

George Morrell as Town Mayor

Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Jim Moore, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes

The Beverly Hillbillies

1993

English

5.1

♡ 16

26%

Penelope Spheeris Director

Gary Carlos Cervantes as Carlos

Erika Eleniak as Elly May Clampett

Penny Fuller as Mrs. Margaret Drysdale

Rob Schneider as Woodrow Tyler

Mild-mannered dirt-poor hill-dweller Jed Clampett strikes it rich when oil is discovered on his property. At cousin Pearl's insistence, he moves his family to Beverly Hills to better enjoy his newfound wealth.

Oklahoma Crude

1973

English

6.3

♡ 1

35%

Stanley Kramer Director

Jack Palance as Hellman

Karl Lukas as Hobo #1

Faye Dunaway as Lena

William Lucking as Marion

In 1913, in Oklahoma, oil derrick owner Lena Doyle, aided by her father and a hobo, is stubbornly drilling for oil despite the pressure from major oil companies to sell her land.

Journey Into Fear

1975

English

5.3

♡ 6

Action

based on novel or book

Daniel Mann Director

Ian McShane as Banat

Joseph Wiseman as Colonel Haki

Vincent Price as Dervos

Yvette Mimieux as Josette

U.S geologist discovers something about Oil that proves VERY threatening to the Turkish and Arab business people.

Hurricane Smith

1992

English

4.4

♡ 4

27%

smuggling (contraband)

Colin Budds Director

Glenn Ruehland as Bernie

Carl Weathers as Billy 'Hurricane' Smith

Jürgen Prochnow as Charlie Dowd

John Ewart as David Griffiths

An oil-field worker from Texas journeys to Australia to look for his missing sister, and his search winds up getting him involved with a violent drug-smuggling gang.

In Old Oklahoma

1943

English

6.3

♡ 5

46%

Albert S. Rogell Director

Irving Bacon as Ben

Rhonda Fleming as Dance-Hall Girl

Shirley Jean Rickert as Dancer

George Chandler as Man on Train

Cowboy Dan Somers and oilman Jim "Hunk" Gardner compete for oil lease rights on Indian land in Oklahoma, as well as for the favors of schoolteacher Cathy Allen.

The Devil Has a Name

2019

English

5.5

♡ 7

36%

Edward James Olmos Director

Haley Joel Osment as

Kate Bosworth as

Pablo Schreiber as

Alfred Molina as

An oil baron and a farmer standoff after the water on his farm is poisoned by her company.

Boom Town

1940

English

7.0

♡ 4

68%

Jack Conway Director

Casey Johnson as Little Jack

Frank Hagney as Man Abandoned by Whitey

John T. Murray as Mr. Springtime

Nestor Paiva as Venezuelan Officer

Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a twenty year period both love the same woman. McMasters and Sand come to oil towns to get rich. Betsy comes West intending to marry Sand but marries McMasters instead. Getting rich and losing it all teaches McMasters and Sand the value of personal ties.

The Soldier

1982

English

5.3

♡ 9

25%

Action

Adventure

central intelligence agency (cia)

James Glickenhaus Director

Jery Hewitt as Cowboy

Al Cerullo as Dauphin Pilot

Alberta Watson as Susan Goodman

Jeffrey Jones as U.S. Assistant Secretary of Defense

Terrorists take over a plutonium bomb and threaten to detonate it in a Saudi Arabian oil field. A special anti-terrorist unit is sent in to stop them.

Born of War

2014

English

4.4

♡ 9

36%

Vicky Jewson Director

Michael Brandon as Harm Helder

Michael Maloney as Ian

Lydia Leonard as Olivia

James Frain as Simon

Mina, a young college student, has her life ripped away after her family is killed. When she finds out their murder was part of a botched kidnapping to return her to her real father—a terrorist in the middle east.

Miami Magma

2011

English

3.2

♡ 2

Todor Chapkanov Director

Griff Furst as Brandon Rice

Brad Dourif as Jacob Capilla

Cleavant Derricks as Ray Miller

Nick Jones Jr. as (voice) (uncredited)

Antoinette Vitrini, a volcanologist, confirms her theory of a long-dormant underground volcano after an offshore-drilling rig bursts into flames. Now, she must stop catastrophic amounts of magma from pumping out right under Miami, Florida.

Bad River

2024

English

7.7

♡ 2

100%

Mary Mazzio Director

Edward Norton as Narrator

Quannah Chasinghorse as Narrator

Howard K. Smith as Self - Host, ABC Evening News

Rachel Maddow as Self - Host, The Rachel Maddow Show

Wisconsin's tribe's ongoing fight to protect Lake Superior for future generations. "Bad River" shows the Bad River Band of Lake Superior Chippewa's long history of activism and resistance in the context of continuing legal battles with Enbridge Energy over its Line 5 oil pipeline. The Line 5 pipeline has been operating on 12 miles of the Bad River Band's land with expired easements for more than a decade. The Band and the Canadian company have been locked in a legal battle over the pipeline since 2019.

Blowing Wild

1953

English

6.4

♡ 6

27%

Hugo Fregonese Director

Ward Bond as Dutch Peterson

Gary Cooper as Jeff Dawson

Barbara Stanwyck as Marina Conway

Anthony Quinn as Ward 'Paco' Conway

Wildcatter Jeff Dawson does his best to bring in a gusher in Mexico despite continual bandit raids. He asks for help from his ex-employer Ward Conway, but Conway, now married to Dawson's ex-lover Marina refuses, fearing that his wife will want to renew her romance with the other man.

The World Is Not Enough

1999

English

6.4

♡ 126

51%

british secret service

Michael Apted Director

Denise Richards as Dr. Christmas Jones

Sophie Marceau as Elektra King

Pierce Brosnan as James Bond

Robert Carlyle as Renard

Greed, revenge, world dominance and high-tech terrorism – it's all in a day's work for Bond, who's on a mission to protect a beautiful oil heiress from a notorious terrorist. In a race against time that culminates in a dramatic submarine showdown, Bond works to defuse the international power struggle that has the world's oil supply hanging in the balance.

Collections

Sort

View

Search

Sarah's Oil

Hellfighters

Comes a Horseman

'Neath the Arizona Skies

The Beverly Hillbillies

Oklahoma Crude

Journey Into Fear

Hurricane Smith

In Old Oklahoma

The Devil Has a Name

Boom Town

The Soldier

Born of War

Miami Magma

Bad River

Blowing Wild

The World Is Not Enough