Sort by Popularity - Most Popular Movies and TV Shows tagged with keyword "mining-company"

1. The Glass Castle (2017)

PG-13 | 127 min | Biography, Drama

A young girl comes of age in a dysfunctional family of nonconformist nomads with a mother who's an eccentric artist and an alcoholic father who would stir the children's imagination with hope as a distraction to their poverty.

Director: Destin Daniel Cretton | Stars: Brie Larson, Woody Harrelson, Naomi Watts, Ella Anderson

Votes: 38,501 | Gross: $17.27M

2. Gold (I) (2016)

R | 120 min | Biography, Crime, Drama

Kenny Wells, a prospector desperate for a lucky break, teams up with a similarly eager geologist and sets off on a journey to find gold in the uncharted jungle of Indonesia.

Director: Stephen Gaghan | Stars: Matthew McConaughey, Edgar Ramírez, Bryce Dallas Howard, Corey Stoll

Votes: 69,236 | Gross: $7.23M

3. High Plains Drifter (1973)

R | 105 min | Drama, Mystery, Western

A gun-fighting stranger comes to the small settlement of Lago and is hired to bring the townsfolk together in an attempt to hold off three outlaws who are on their way.

Director: Clint Eastwood | Stars: Clint Eastwood, Verna Bloom, Marianna Hill, Mitchell Ryan

Votes: 64,490 | Gross: $15.70M

4. McCabe & Mrs. Miller (1971)

R | 120 min | Drama, Western

A gambler and a prostitute become business partners in a remote Old West mining town, and their enterprise thrives until a large corporation arrives on the scene.

Director: Robert Altman | Stars: Warren Beatty, Julie Christie, Rene Auberjonois, William Devane

Votes: 27,632 | Gross: $8.20M

5. Outland (1981)

R | 109 min | Action, Crime, Sci-Fi

A federal marshal stationed at a mining colony on the Jupiter moon of Io uncovers a drug-smuggling conspiracy. He gets no help from the workers or authorities when he finds himself marked for murder.

Director: Peter Hyams | Stars: Sean Connery, Frances Sternhagen, Peter Boyle, James Sikking

Votes: 32,359 | Gross: $17.37M

6. Close (I) (2019)

TV-MA | 94 min | Action, Drama, Thriller

A female bodyguard is hired to protect an heiress on the run from assassins.

Director: Vicky Jewson | Stars: Noomi Rapace, Sophie Nélisse, Indira Varma, Eoin Macken

Votes: 27,156

7. Ernest Goes to Camp (1987)

PG | 92 min | Comedy, Family

Ernest, a lovable loser who works as a summer camp handyman and dreams of becoming a guidance councilor, must find a way to inspire a group of juvenile delinquents as well as stop a shady strip mining company from closing the camp.

Director: John R. Cherry III | Stars: Jim Varney, Victoria Racimo, John Vernon, Iron Eyes Cody

Votes: 12,459 | Gross: $23.51M

8. Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)

G | 91 min | Comedy, Romance, Western

A con artist arrives in a mining town controlled by two competing companies. Both companies think he's a famous gunfighter and try to hire him to drive the other out of town.

Director: Burt Kennedy | Stars: James Garner, Suzanne Pleshette, Jack Elam, Harry Morgan

Votes: 6,263 | Gross: $0.55M

9. Matewan (1987)

PG-13 | 135 min | Drama, History

A labor union organizer comes to an embattled mining community brutally and violently dominated and harassed by the mining company.

Director: John Sayles | Stars: Chris Cooper, James Earl Jones, Mary McDonnell, Will Oldham

Votes: 8,907 | Gross: $1.68M

10. Susan Slade (1961)

Not Rated | 116 min | Drama

Premarital sex, secrets, and society. At 17, shy Susan Slade is on her way to California after a 10-year stay at a remote Chilean mine where her father was chief engineer. Onboard ship, ... See full summary »

Director: Delmer Daves | Stars: Troy Donahue, Dorothy McGuire, Connie Stevens, Lloyd Nolan

Votes: 942

11. Harlan County U.S.A. (1976)

PG | 103 min | Documentary

A heartbreaking record of the thirteen-month struggle between a community fighting to survive and a corporation dedicated to the bottom line.

Director: Barbara Kopple | Stars: John L. Lewis, Carl Horn, Norman Yarborough, Logan Patterson

Votes: 6,625

12. A United Kingdom (2016)

PG-13 | 111 min | Biography, Drama, History

The story of King Seretse Khama of Botswana and how his loving but controversial marriage to a British white woman, Ruth Williams, put his kingdom into political and diplomatic turmoil.

Director: Amma Asante | Stars: David Oyelowo, Rosamund Pike, Tom Felton, Jack Davenport

Votes: 16,983 | Gross: $3.90M

13. Where the Green Ants Dream (1984)

R | 100 min | Drama

A geologist employed by an Australian mining company finds himself disputing the rights of some aborigines who believe their land to be sacred.

Director: Werner Herzog | Stars: Bruce Spence, Wandjuk Marika, Roy Marika, Ray Barrett

Votes: 2,630

14. The Dungeon of Black Company (2021)

TV-14 | 23 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy

In debt and in a new world? Kinji's living a nightmare. Avoiding work is gonna be a tough grind. Does he have what it takes?

Stars: Misaki Kuno, Katsuyuki Konishi, Hiro Shimono, Satomi Satô

Votes: 818

15. Deadly Secrets by the Lake (2017 TV Movie)

TV-14 | 86 min | Drama, Mystery, Thriller

Based on an original idea co-developed by LMN and Harlequin, this whodunit murder mystery uncovers the secrets kept by the idyllic lakeside town of Thornwood Heights.

Director: Don McBrearty | Stars: Stefanie von Pfetten, Steve Byers, Tahmoh Penikett, Fulvio Cecere

Votes: 329

16. Bisbee '17 (2018)

PG | 112 min | Documentary, History, Western

An old mining town on the Arizona-Mexico border finally reckons with its darkest day: the deportation of 1200 immigrant miners exactly 100 years ago. Locals collaborate to stage recreations of their controversial past.

Director: Robert Greene | Stars: Mike Anderson, Charles Bethea, Chris Dietz, Mary Ellen Dunlap

Votes: 715 | Gross: $0.12M

17. Indio (1989)

R | 89 min | Adventure, Action

"Indio", a half-Indian ex-Marine, fights to save the rainforest against the forces of a mega corporation that is trying to destroy it to make money, headed by a former US Army colonel.

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Francesco Quinn, Brian Dennehy, Rene Abadeza

Votes: 254

18. Silver City (1951)

Passed | 90 min | Western

After a desperate plot to rob his company office, a mining engineer leaves town humiliated. He takes up work elsewhere, agreeing to help a threatened father and his daughter extract silver ore from their mine before the lease expires.

Director: Byron Haskin | Stars: Edmond O'Brien, Yvonne De Carlo, Richard Arlen, Barry Fitzgerald

Votes: 363

19. Dead Man's Burden (2012)

Not Rated | 93 min | Drama, Western

A western set on the New Mexico frontier a few years after the Civil War and centered on a struggling young family and the mining company who wants to buy their land.

Director: Jared Moshe | Stars: Barlow Jacobs, Clare Bowen, David Call, Joseph Lyle Taylor

Votes: 691

20. Too Many Kisses (1925)

60 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama

Richard Gaylord, Jr. is a modern Lothario who has so many sweethearts that his father does not know what to do with him. Tired of paying to get his son out of one romantic entanglement ... See full summary »

Director: Paul Sloane | Stars: Richard Dix, Frank Currier, Albert Tavernier, Frances Howard

Votes: 249

21. Axiomas (2022)

93 min | Drama

Isabela returns to the town where she was born, summoned by Axiomas, the environmental organization she works for as a lawyer. There, she must battle against a mining company and its main protector, Governor Ribero, who is also her father.

Director: Marcela Luchetta | Stars: César Bordón, Paula Cancio, Luz Cipriota, Erasmo Colombo

Votes: 491

22. Indio 2 - La rivolta (1991)

R | 95 min | Action, Adventure

A corporation building a highway through the rainforest hires a gang of mercenaries to get rid of the local Indians, who don't want the highway built through their lands. The mercenaries ... See full summary »

Director: Antonio Margheriti | Stars: Marvelous Marvin Hagler, Frank Cuervo, Dirk Galuba, Tetchie Agbayani

Votes: 150

23. Letters from Marusia (1975)

110 min | Drama, History

It is 1925 and working conditions in Chile are abysmal. The miners of Marusia go on strike, but the mine owners and the Government use the Chilean Army crush them.

Director: Miguel Littin | Stars: Gian Maria Volontè, Diana Bracho, Claudio Obregón, Eduardo López Rojas

Votes: 364

24. Ocean Emergency: Currents of Hope (2022 TV Special)

Documentary

The hosts go around the globe to share a look at the state of emergency of our oceans and provide tips on how viewers can help mitigate this worldwide issue.

Stars: Dean Cain, Laura McKenzie, Elizabeth Stanton, Montel Williams

Votes: 28

25. Last of the Pagans (1935)

Passed | 70 min | Adventure, Romance, Drama

A young Polynesian couple is separated by a mining company which enslaves islanders.

Director: Richard Thorpe | Stars: Mala, Lotus Long, Rudolph Anders, Chester Gan

Votes: 209

26. Cananea (1978)

123 min | Drama, History, Western

The Cananea strike took place in June 1906. This is the true story of strikers in the American owned mine. Cananea is a city in the northern Mexican state of Sonora.

Director: Marcela Fernández Violante | Stars: Yolanda Ciani, Carlos Bracho, Milton Rodríguez, José Carlos Ruiz

Votes: 47

27. An Injury to One (2002)

Not Rated | 53 min | Documentary

An experimental documentary exploring the turn-of-century lynching of union organizer Frank Little in Butte, Montana.

Director: Travis Wilkerson

Votes: 218

28. Walang alaala ang mga paru-paro (2009)

40 min | Short, Drama

Ferding, Santos and Willy only drink in despair. One day, a Canadian woman's visit changes everything.

Director: Lav Diaz | Stars: Willy Fernandez, Joel Ferrer, Lois Goff, Kristine Kintana

Votes: 173

29. Amanecer en Puerta Oscura (1957)

85 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

Set in rural South of Spain in the 19th century, tells the story of group of outlaws, from very different origins, trying to survive, hiding from the law enforcement officers in caves in a ... See full summary »

Director: José María Forqué | Stars: Francisco Rabal, Luis Peña, Alberto Farnese, Isabel de Pomés

Votes: 107

30. North of Pittsburgh (1992)

98 min | Comedy, Drama

Set in 1975, Tony Andretti (Jeff Schultz) is an aimless young Ontario man who earns a dangerous living running pot from Pittsburgh to the Canadian border. Rosa Andretti (Viveca Lindfors) is... See full summary »

Director: Richard Martin | Stars: Jeff Schultz, Byron Lucas, John Cassini, Viveca Lindfors

Votes: 33

31. Badmen of Tombstone (1949)

Approved | 75 min | Western

A marshal goes up against a collection of vicious outlaws terrorizing his town.

Director: Kurt Neumann | Stars: Barry Sullivan, Marjorie Reynolds, Broderick Crawford, Fortunio Bonanova

Votes: 145

32. Capitalismo Selvagem (1993)

86 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance

This is a comedy; a double satire of Brazilian soap operas and at the same time, about "savage capitalism" in 1990's Brazil where the Amazon jungle is exploited, while killing Indians and ... See full summary »

Director: André Klotzel | Stars: Cacique Apoena, Adilson Barros, Vanderlei Bernardino, Sônia Carneiro

Votes: 93

33. Etairia thavmaton (1962)

80 min | Comedy

To take a pasture rich in ore deposits which belongs to a God-fearing villager, the owner of a mining company hires a seemingly pious preacher to follow the will of a nonexistent holy man. Soon, there's a miracle. Could the saint be real?

Director: Stefanos Stratigos | Stars: Dimitris Papamichael, Gely Mavropoulou, Pantelis Zervos, Marika Krevata

Votes: 86

34. Arshaula (1935)

70 min | Action, Adventure, Drama

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Director: Davit Rondeli | Stars: Tsetsilia Tsutsunava, Keto Japaridze, Zaali Terishvili, G. Meliava

Votes: 18

35. Torchy (1931)

21 min | Short, Comedy

Fired from his job as office boy, Torchy gets involved with a phony gold mine promoter.

Director: C.C. Burr | Stars: Ray Cooke, Dorothy Dix, Edmund Breese, Franklin Pangborn

Votes: 15

36. Fighting for Gold (1919)

50 min | Western

Jack Kilmeny, the heir to a British dukedom, owns a gold mine in the American west with his partner Curly Brandon, another English nobleman. Lord Farquar, the owner of a powerful British ... See full summary »

Director: Edward LeSaint | Stars: Tom Mix, Teddy Sampson, Sid Jordan, Jack Nelson

37. El barbero prodigioso (1942)

Comedy, Drama

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Director: Fernando Soler | Stars: Fernando Soler, Adriana Lamar, Domingo Soler, Francisco Jambrina

Votes: 14

38. Jos oisi valtaa... (1941)

93 min | Comedy, Musical

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Director: Yrjö Norta | Stars: Aku Korhonen, Sirkka Sipilä, Yrjö Tuominen, Joel Rinne

Votes: 43

39. El Barro de la Revolución (2019)

127 min

El Barro de la Revolución takes place in the Philippine rainforest and reveals life on the inside, without the usual mandate of the camera, of the military, social, political, emotional and... See full summary »

Director: Paloma Polo

40. The Land of Mine (2016)

98 min | Documentary, Comedy, Drama

Tragicomic follow-up doc how the celebrated billion euro flagship of European green mining industry build in pristine wilderness-became a polluting open-pit uranium mine shocking the mining minded government and money pit for the nation.

Directors: Mika Koskinen, Mika Koskinen | Stars: Mika Koskinen, Jason Marshall, Tuija Brax, Sanni Grahn-Laasonen

Votes: 46

41. Keeper (2010)

27 min | Documentary, Short, Biography

'Keeper' is the story of two Aboriginal women living in the small town of Ceduna on the far-west coast of South Australia. 15 year-old Jacinta Haseldine is a high school student, as ... See full summary »

Director: Ali Russell | Stars: Miriam Corowa, Gletys Haseldine, Jacinta Haseldine, Sue Coleman Haseldine

42. Desalojo (2007)

10 min | Documentary, Short

In January 2007, indigenous communities in Guatemala are forcibly evicted from their land by a Canadian mining company. Community members watch as their homes are burned to the ground, and ... See full summary »

Director: Steven Schnoor

43. Talvivaaran miehet (2015)

72 min | Documentary

Documentary about a Finnish mining company struggling with production and environmental management problems.

Director: Markku Heikkinen | Stars: Joni Haverinen, Kyösti Haverinen, Veli-Pekka Hilla, Esko Hujanen

Votes: 78

44. Midnight Oil: Blue Sky Mine (1990 Music Video)

5 min | Short, Music

The music video for the song "Blue Sky Mine" by the Australian rock band Midnight Oil from the 1990 album "Blue Sky Mining".

Director: Claudia Castle | Stars: Peter Garrett, Dwayne Hillman, Rob Hirst, Midnight Oil

Votes: 21

45. El futuro ha comenzado (1976)

9 min | Documentary, Short, Family

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Director: Leonidas Zegarra | Star: Augusto Varillas

46. The Forest Rangers (1963–1966)
Episode: Hidden Gold (1964)

26 min | Family

A chance discovery of gold in the valley, leads to a land rush brought on by unscrupulous real estate agents. It is up to the kids to uncover the truth about the gold find, and help find justice for all.

Director: George McCowan | Stars: Graydon Gould, Rex Hagon, Michael Zenon, Gordon Pinsent

47. The Republic of Sarah (2021)
Episode: Pilot (2021)

TV-14 | 43 min | Drama

The bucolic tranquility of Greylock, New Hampshire is upended when a massive vein of coltan - an incredibly valuable mineral used in tech - is discovered under the town.

Director: Kat Candler | Stars: Stella Baker, Luke Mitchell, Hope Lauren, Nia Holloway

Votes: 122

48. Maria Kallio (2021– )
Episode: Kuparisydän (2021)

60 min | Crime, Drama

COPPER HEART Maria investigates the murder of the chief geologist at a mining company opening event. Maria accepts a permanent position as the leader of the murder squad and moves to her cottage.

Director: Jojo Erholtz | Stars: Elena Leeve, Leo Sjöman, Markus Järvenpää, Petteri Summanen

Votes: 17

49. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: Save My Love (2011)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

After Winona realizes that Raylan didn't recover her counterfeit $100 bill from the bank robbery, she drops another bombshell on him. Meanwhile, the coal mine offers Boyd a new job more suited toward his skills.

Director: Jon Avnet | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,703

50. Justified (2010–2015)
Episode: The Spoil (2011)

TV-MA | 41 min | Action, Crime, Drama

Raylan is assigned to protect a local coal mine executive as she tries to buy up land for the company but faces opposition from the Bennett clan.

Director: Michael W. Watkins | Stars: Timothy Olyphant, Nick Searcy, Joelle Carter, Jacob Pitts

Votes: 1,634