在未来，因为战争和资源的枯竭，建立在石油之上的工业社会陷入崩溃，人们为了汽油展开生死争夺，这是恐怖如地狱的末世景象。失去了朋友和亲人的麦克斯（梅尔·吉布森 Mel Gibson 饰）以车为家，继续和公路骑士们无休无止的战斗。然而因为他的V8失去燃料，麦克斯只得离开公路，在一个陷阱猎手的指引下，前往一处石油钻井寻找燃料。荒漠中的人们，为了保卫钻井，建立了防御设施对抗骑士休曼格斯一伙，麦克斯从骑士们手中救出了一位奄奄一息的钻井保卫者，结果反被钻井守卫者们扣留，而此时，休曼格斯率领手下将钻井团团包围，危急关头，麦克斯设计对抗休曼格斯。
当道格的父亲，一名空军飞行员，被一个激进的中东国家的米格战机击落时，似乎没人能把他救出来。道格找到了查比，一位空军上校，他对派遣两架自己驾驶的战斗机和道格在轰炸米格基地后营救道格的父亲的想法很感兴趣。他们唯一的问题是:借了两架战斗机，把他们从加利福尼亚带到地中海地区，却没人注意到，还有道格除非有音乐伴奏，否则什么也打不动。然后是国家防空系统的小问题。
那些超级沙漠的生物回来了 - 这次他们在边界以南。随着生物在墨西哥的油田中流淌，唯一可以摆脱他们的人就是退伍军人的伯爵·贝塞特（Earl Bassett）和生还者伯特·古默（Burt Gummer）。给那支球队一个年轻的朋克加上现金和一个无畏的科学家，而这个小动物并没有机会。
From childhood to fatherhood, Piero learns things the hard way while growing up in a working-class neighborhood of Livorno.
意大利的一个小镇上，Irma（阿莉达·瓦莉 Alida Valli 饰）的在悉尼工作的丈夫去世了，而她也决定和她的情人Aldo（史蒂夫·柯臣 Steve Cochran 饰）分开。Aldo苦苦挽留Irma无果，便带着年纪还小的女儿Rosina离开了小镇。Aldo先是去找了一个一直钟情于他的女子Elvia，Aldo却发现自己无法爱上她，又离开了。漂泊的路上，Aldo到处寻找工作。先是在一个加油站，加油站的寡妇Virginia给了他一份工作，两人之间也产生了感情。但不久后Aldo又离开了，找到了一份短暂的工作，认识了Andreina，一个妓女。警察经过，Aldo只能离开，经过加油站的时候，Virginia告诉他，Irma给他寄了封明信片。Aldo又踏上了回去寻找Irma的路......
Tehran, Iran, August 19, 1953. A group of Iranian conspirators who, with the approval of the deposed tyrant Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, have conspired with agents of the British MI6 and the US CIA, manage to put an end to the democratic government led by Mohammad Mosaddegh, a dramatic event that will begin the tragic era of coups d'état that, orchestrated by the CIA, will take place, over the following decades, in dozens of countries around the world.
An ex-employee of a city oil refinery creates an explosion at the facility which starts a chain-reaction of fires that engulf the entire city.
Alberto, a collective taxi driver, observes through the lives that pass through his car, the beauty hidden in the decadence of the oil city where he works.
The Karikpo masquerade - a traditional dance of the Ogoni tribe - is transposed onto the remnants of a faded oil industry programme in the Niger delta.
Moving between a local microcosm and the global oil crisis, H2Oil weaves together a collection of compelling stories of people who are at the front lines of the biggest industrial project in human history: Canada's tar sands. H2Oil is a feature-length documentary that traces the wavering balance between the urgent need to protect and preserve fresh water resources and the mad clamoring to fill the global demand for oil. It is a film that asks: what is more important, water or oil? Will the quest for profit overshadow efforts to protect public health and the environment in Canada's richest province?
The Oil Symphony is a film about the heroic efforts of Azerbaijani labourers drilling for oil.