Movies about the Oil Business
by douglasrubin | created - 26 Feb 2021 | updated - 26 Feb 2021 | PublicOr, in Texas, the awl bidness
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1. Waltz Across Texas (1982)
PG | 99 min | Drama, Romance
A cosmopolitan East Coast geologist (Anne Archer) drills for oil and finds love with a Texas wildcatter (Terry Jastrow).
Director: Ernest Day | Stars: Anne Archer, Terry Jastrow, Noah Beery Jr., Richard Farnsworth
Votes: 233
2. Boom Town (1940)
Passed | 119 min | Drama, Romance, Western
Two buddies who rise from fly-by-night wildcatters to oil tycoons over a ten-year period both love the same woman.
Director: Jack Conway | Stars: Clark Gable, Spencer Tracy, Claudette Colbert, Hedy Lamarr
Votes: 3,782 | Gross: $9.17M
3. Local Hero (1983)
PG | 111 min | Comedy, Drama
An American oil company has plans for a new refinery and sends someone to Scotland to buy up an entire village, but things don't go as expected.
Director: Bill Forsyth | Stars: Burt Lancaster, Peter Riegert, Fulton Mackay, Denis Lawson
Votes: 26,717 | Gross: $5.90M
4. There Will Be Blood (2007)
R | 158 min | Drama
A story of family, religion, hatred, oil and madness, focusing on a turn-of-the-century prospector in the early days of the business.
Director: Paul Thomas Anderson | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Ciarán Hinds, Martin Stringer
Votes: 641,580 | Gross: $40.22M
5. Giant (1956)
G | 201 min | Drama, Western
Sprawling epic covering the life of a Texas cattle rancher and his family and associates.
Director: George Stevens | Stars: Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, James Dean, Carroll Baker
Votes: 42,270
6. Boomtown (2017)
Not Rated | 91 min | Drama
A young father and husband looks towards the oil fields for a better life for him and his family. But will the fast money and glamour detour his agenda?
Director: Sabyn Mayfield | Stars: Rachel Brosnahan, Boyd Holbrook, Dwight Yoakam, Jocelin Donahue
Votes: 181
7. Mad Max 2: The Road Warrior (1981)
R | 96 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi
In the post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits.
Director: George Miller | Stars: Mel Gibson, Bruce Spence, Michael Preston, Max Phipps
Votes: 193,920 | Gross: $12.47M
8. Tulsa (1949)
Approved | 90 min | Drama, Western
In Tulsa, after a rancher dies during a feud with a major oil company, his daughter, driven by revenge, starts digging for oil herself.
Director: Stuart Heisler | Stars: Susan Hayward, Robert Preston, Pedro Armendáriz, Lloyd Gough
Votes: 1,360
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