Desert Movies

Journalist Mike Harway decides to help his friend Christine in her search for her father, professor Baker, who mysteriously disappeared. The...

Two barbarians in the desert find a stranded white woman and regard her as their property. A strange and exotic parable that presents a tragic...

A young British boy whose father was murdered by a treacherous Aran sheik finds himself in a position to exact revenge as an adult.

An undercover documentary film produced and directed by British filmmaker Dominic Brown, about the struggle of the indigenous Sahrawi people of...

In this visually arresting drama, a musician recalls his life and the painful choice his mother made when she could feed only one of her twin sons.

A lone truck driver drives his load, a ferris wheel, through a remote desert landscape. Trapped in his fears and habits, he hardly dares to step out...

Charity walkers raising funds for cancer research by crossing the Sahara Desert argue and squabble over their relationships in the past. However when...

A couple of artists travels through the Mexico desert to present their puppet show.

Julie Bronson, whose father operates a desert cafe, is attracting the unwanted attention of a half-crazed gangster known as The Ghost who runs a...

A short film about the life and death of California's most famous post-apocalyptic hell-hole, the Salton Sea.

Permaculture expert Geoff Lawton describes how he and a team of volunteers grew an oasis in arid, salty lowland, despite extremely high temperatures...

Life takes a strange turn when a group of outsiders come to the small town of Cholame, the famed site of James Dean's fatal car crash. Cholame's only...

A toad bikes back home in order to water his plants.

A surreal post-apocalyptic drama by Patrick Kennelly inspired by the clipping. album “Splendor & Misery”

As a child in Burkina Faso, Yacouba was sent away from home to study the Qur'an, where he and his classmates were almost starving. The young boys...

A jealous wife kidnaps her cheating husband and his young secretary and holds them hostage in an isolated house in the desert; but divorce is the...

This film is a realistic record of a sixty-year-old couple living in a remote village (Gurenay) in the Badain Jaran Desert of Alashan, Inner Mongolia...

A girl falls in love with a fish.

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

A large commercial mining company has claimed the Patagonia Mountains, and the environmentalist mother wants to enjoy the area before the digging...