Forrest Taft is an environmental agent who works for the Aegis Oil Company in Alaska. Aegis Oil's corrupt CEO 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.

The Oil Prince

1965

German

5.8

♡ 5

Alfred Vohrer Director

Gerd Frickhöffer as Kovacz

Macha Méril as Lizzy

Terence Hill as Richard Forsythe

Harald Leipnitz as The Oilprince

'The Oilprince' is an unscrupulous businessman. He looks forward to a lucrative deal with the "Western Arizona Bank'. He sells the bank oil wells at Shelly Lake that do actually not exist. The Oilprince learns that the colonists would like to settle at Shelly Lake. So The Oilprince exchanges the scout of the settlers by one of his minions to give them another route. But soon The Oilprince has to recognize that he has not counted on Winnetou, the righteous leader of the Apaches, and his blood brother Old Surehand.

The Dictator

2012

English

6.5

♡ 307

56%

Larry Charles Director

Aasif Mandvi as Doctor

Edward Norton as Edward Norton

Megan Fox as Megan Fox

Anna Faris as Zoey

The heroic story of a dictator who risks his life to ensure that democracy would never come to the country he so lovingly oppressed.

Jarhead

2005

English

7.0

♡ 112

60%

Sam Mendes Director

Jake Gyllenhaal as Anthony Swofford

Lucas Black as Chris Kruger

John Krasinski as Corporal Harrigan

Jamie Foxx as Staff Sgt. Sykes

Jarhead is a film about a US Marine Anthony Swofford’s experience in the Gulf War. After putting up with an arduous boot camp, Swofford and his unit are sent to the Persian Gulf where they are eager to fight, but are forced to stay back from the action. Swofford struggles with the possibility of his girlfriend cheating on him, and as his mental state deteriorates, his desire to kill increases.

There Will Be Blood

2007

English

8.2

♡ 278

91%

86%

Action

based on novel or book

Paul Thomas Anderson Director

Ciarán Hinds as Fletcher

David Warshofsky as H.M. Tilford

Paul Dano as Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday

Jim Meskimen as Signal Hill Married Man

Ruthless silver miner, turned oil prospector, Daniel Plainview, moves to oil-rich California. Using his son to project a trustworthy, family-man image, Plainview cons local landowners into selling him their valuable properties for a pittance. However, local preacher Eli Sunday suspects Plainview's motives and intentions, starting a slow-burning feud that threatens both their lives.

Flatfoot in Egypt

1980

Italian

6.1

♡ 12

Steno Director

Bud Spencer as Commissario Rizzo 'Piedone'

Adel Adham as Elver Zakar

Ester Carloni as Maria, tabaco seller

Karl-Otto Alberty as The Swede

Inspector Rizzo and Marshal Caputo go to Egypt and look for Professor Cerullo, who is missing.

Local Hero

1983

English

7.3

♡ 17

100%

Bill Forsyth Director

John M. Jackson as Cal

Burt Lancaster as Felix Happer

Denis Lawson as Urquhart

Alex Norton as Watt

An American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire village where they want to build a refinery. But things don't go as expected.

Giant

1956

English

7.6

♡ 28

86%

George Stevens Director

Bill Hale as Bartender

Sheb Wooley as Gabe Target

Larry Arnold as Governor's Ball Guest

Rod Taylor as Sir David Karfrey

Wealthy rancher Bick Benedict and dirt-poor cowboy Jett Rink both woo Leslie Lynnton, a beautiful young woman from Maryland who is new to Texas. She marries Benedict, but she is shocked by the racial bigotry of the White Texans against the local people of Mexican descent. Rink discovers oil on a small plot of land, and while he uses his vast, new wealth to buy all the land surrounding the Benedict ranch, the Benedict's disagreement over prejudice fuels conflict that runs across generations.

The Wages of Fear

1953

French

8.1

♡ 37

100%

94%

Action

Adventure

based on novel or book

central and south america

Henri-Georges Clouzot Director

Darling Légitimus as (as Miss Darling)

Darío Moreno as Hernandez

Yves Montand as Mario

René Baranger as (uncredited)

In a run-down South American town, four men are paid to drive trucks loaded with nitroglycerin into the jungle through to the oil field. Friendships are tested and rivalries develop as they embark upon the perilous journey.

Mad Max

1979

English

6.8

♡ 151

89%

post-apocalyptic future

Sci-Fi

Thriller

George Miller Director

John Arnold as

Joanne Samuel as Jessie

Mel Gibson as Max

Vincent Gil as Nightrider

In the ravaged near-future, a savage motorcycle gang rules the road. Terrorizing innocent civilians while tearing up the streets, the ruthless gang laughs in the face of a police force hell-bent on stopping them.

Syriana

2005

English

6.9

♡ 61

72%

central intelligence agency (cia)

Stephen Gaghan Director

George Clooney as Bob Barnes

Matt Damon as Bryan Woodman

Peter Gerety as Leland Janus

Will McCormack as Willy

The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in charge of facilitating a dubious merger of oil companies, while Bryan Woodman, a Switzerland-based energy analyst, experiences both personal tragedy and opportunity during a visit with Arabian royalty. Meanwhile, veteran CIA agent Bob Barnes uncovers an assassination plot with unsettling origins.

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