Desert Movies

Three people looking for a better life become stranded in the desert with little hope of survival.

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

Max Boden, an ingenuitive desert naturalist, is trying to stop the construction of a copper mine on the outskirts of 1939 Tucson, Arizona. Through a...

A young man haunted by anxiety about time finds himself on a surreal journey through the desert, where his memories, doubts, and fears materialize...

London-based artist and photographer Muzi Quawson examines the lives of people situated at the fringes of the mainstream. She is drawn to...

The engineer Manuel Iglesias is commissioned to supervise the expansion of the ChihuahuaPacífico railway; for this he wants his adopted son...

A frustrated art student reaches into his dreams for inspiration, only to be taken on a journey by a mysterious doppelganger.

"My Blue Heaven" follows a man living outside of Las Vegas, searching to escape life's monotony. Trapped in a cycle that he struggles to break out...

At once a vast expanse of mesmerizing desolation and the crucible of human history, the Sahara Desert has been both the battlefield of empires and...

On a hot day in the unforgiving desert, two hungry and solitary beasts find themselves in the proximity of a partially devoured carcass. They must go...

A young man with a backpack walks all on his own into the endless Mexican cactus desert. He takes some peyote. How does he get out again? Pure cinema...

Peru is a country of many contrasts. From the cold waters of the Coast over the 6000 m high Andes to the unique biodiversity of the Amazon Jungle....

The north of Chile with its dry land, is one of the most hostile places on the planet, nevertheless, with much effort some families dream of seeing...

A genetically-engineered virus, meant for good, but never before tested on humans, has found a host. This is the story of four desperate people who,...

This somewhat ridiculous 1963 US Air Force training film from the series “Mountain and Desert Survival,” outlines principles of desert...

Ali Baba steals hidden treasure from some raiders who then seek revenge on his family.

In late August 2016, the band of Floating Points travelled to the Mojave desert to rehearse and record before their tour of the Southern states of...

After witnessing a murder, a YouTuber follows and records the killer for content.

In 1973 Roberto Saldivar was arrested and imprisoned in an old Salpetermine in northern Chile. The mine was used as concentrationcamp for political...