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Syriana (2005)
The war on terror becomes personal for a CIA agent (George Clooney), while a proposed merger between...
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There Will Be Blood (2007)
Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis) becomes a self-made oil tycoon, but he deviates into moral...
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The World Is Not Enough (1999)
James Bond (Pierce Brosnan) serves as bodyguard to the daughter (Sophie Marceau) of a late friend...
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W. (2008)
George W. Bush (Josh Brolin) transforms himself from a ne'er-do-well son of privilege to president...
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Crude Awakening
Filmmakers Basil Gelpke and Ray McCormack examine how depleting oil reserves affect industrial...
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King Kong (1976)
An oil explorer (Charles Grodin), a zoologist (Jeff Bridges) and a shipwrecked blonde (Jessica...
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Giant (1956)
A cattleman (Rock Hudson) and his spoiled wife (Elizabeth Taylor) watch an upstart oilman (James...
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Crude Impact (2007)
Filmmaker James Jandak Wood examines the U.S. consumption of oil supplies.
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Written on the Wind (1956)
A Texas oilman's (Robert Stack) sister makes him doubt his wife (Lauren Bacall) and best friend...
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The Road Warrior (1981)
Loner lawman Mad Max (Mel Gibson) fights barbarian bikers for gasoline in the wasteland of the...
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New York Confidential (1955)
Story follows the rise and subsequent fall of the notorious head of a New York crime family, who...
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Boom Town (1940)
Texas wildcatters (Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy) hit oil together, then fight after one marries the...
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Flowing Gold
A fugitive drifter (John Garfield) hired by a Texas oil driller (Pat O'Brien) becomes his rival for...
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Thunder Below
Tallulah Bankhead's first Hollywood movie was this romantic-drama weepie, in which she plays Susan,...
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Reptilicus
Danish oil drillers dig up the tail of a prehistoric beast able to regrow its body.
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The Stars Fell on Henrietta (1995)
A down-and-out wildcatter (Robert Duvall) smells oil beneath a struggling farmer's (Aidan Quinn)...
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The Next Man (1976)
Audiences loved him as a Berber sheik in the historical saga The Wind and the Lion, so who better to...
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Lucy Gallant (1955)
An unusually matronly Jane Wyman plays the title character in Lucy Gallant. Adapted from a novel by...
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Six Bridges to Cross (1955)
Loosely based on the famous Boston Brinks heist, the story follows the life of one of the criminals...
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The Formula (1980)
A police detective (George C. Scott) ties his buddy's murder to an oil tycoon (Marlon Brando) and a...
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Blowing Wild (1953)
With Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck in the cast, Blowing Wild was a guaranteed hit even before the...
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Play Dirty (1967)
A British army captain (Michael Caine) leads ex-convict commandos on a desert mission to blow up a...
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The Pelican Brief (1993)
A Washington reporter (Denzel Washington) helps an on-the-run law student (Julia Roberts) who knows...
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ffolkes (1980)
An English admiral (James Mason) needs an eccentric lord (Roger Moore) and his frogmen to save oil...
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The Wages of Fear (1955)
Four men take on the dangerous mission of driving two nitroglycerin-laden trucks through harsh...
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Lessons of Darkness (1995)
An essay on man's abuse and destruction of the Earth, specifically the burning of the Kuwaiti oil...
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The Oil Factor: Behind the War on Terror (2005)
According to O.E.C.D. data, the Middle-East holds 70% of the world oil reserves while North America...
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Local Hero (1983)
An oilman (Peter Riegert) goes native in a quirky Scottish town his Texas boss (Burt Lancaster)...
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The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
Blacklisted in modern day WW2, a Swedish oil trader opts to assist British Allies, by means of...
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The Madwoman of Chaillot (1969)
An eccentric Parisian woman's optimistic perception of life begins to sound more rational than the...
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Masquerade (1965)
The British send an American (Cliff Robertson) and a war hero (Jack Hawkins) to kidnap and hide an...
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Terror in a Texas Town (1958)
A big Swede (Sterling Hayden) with a harpoon leads squatters against an oil-land grabber's...
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Equalizer 2000
Following a nuclear holocaust, Alaska is turned into a desert ruled by a cruel tyrant. This sci-fi...
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Fear Is the Key (1973)
In this thriller based on a novel by Alistair MacLean, Barry Newman plays John Talbot, an underwater...
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On Deadly Ground (1994)
An oil-company trouble-shooter (Steven Seagal) must blow up his employer's (Michael Caine) unsafe...
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The French Line (1953)
A Texas heiress (Jane Russell) meets a French playboy (Gilbert Roland) while posing as a model in...
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Oklahoma Crude (1973)
A wildcatter (Faye Dunaway), her father (John Mills) and a boozing drifter (George C. Scott) defend...
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The Professional (1992)
The action packed life of the professional assassin Golgo 13 (AKA Duke Togo). This guy makes James...
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Death of a Nation: The Timor Conspiracy
Extremely hazardous filming conditions in Indonesian occupied East Timor confirms a devastating...
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Captain Apache
An undercover Indian officer (Lee Van Cleef) exposes a landowner (Stuart Whitman) out to kill...
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Chain of Command (1993)
An anti-terrorist operative (Michael Dudikoff) fights mercenaries out to overthrow an oil-rich...
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Siberiade (1979)
The evolution of a nation during six decades of turbulent history is dramatized via two families...
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Guns
The title tells all -- or nearly all -- in the French melodrama Guns. The film concerns a group of...
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Goodbye Paradise (1982)
In a somewhat far-fetched premise (not uncommon to the genre), this action film has some Australians...
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Les Petroleuses (1971)
Outlaw sisters in the old West inherit a ranch and try to settle down and develop relationships with...
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