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.

Daniel Day-Lewis
as Daniel Plainview

Paul Dano
as Paul Sunday / Eli Sunday

Kevin J. O'Connor
as Henry

Ciarán Hinds
as Fletcher Hamilton

Dillon Freasier
as H.W. Plainview

Hope Elizabeth Reeves
as Elizabeth

Colleen Foy
as Mary Sunday

Barry Del Sherman
as H. B. Ailman

David Willis
as Abel Sunday

Hans Howes
as Mr. Bandy
j4ni
Great movie, not a spaghetti western. Very good story and atmosphere 10 stars....
Wuchak
***Weighty, morose period drama with complex characters and Daniel Day-Lewis*** In the early 20th century, an industrious prospector in Southern California, Daniel Plainview (Daniel Day-Lewis), becomes a shrewd oil magnate, whose journey is paralleled with a dubious Pentecostal pastor of a remot...
CinemaSerf
I remember reading about just how much money Rockefeller was making at the height of his prowess and the sums were eye watering. His Standard Oil company is referenced in this powerful drama with Daniel Day Lewis as “Plainview”. He’s a prospector looking for silver but who has a bit of a fall and di...
James
What the hell was in the air in 2007?...
James
A hypnotic flight into the darkness of the soul and how people hide themselves away. A masterfully directed feat, There Will Be Blood shows the very limits of selfishness and greed which are further encapsulated by Day-Lewis’ mind-blowing and unique performance of which could be easily called the gr...