Desert Movies

For twelve years, a Mexican American couple have organized biweekly search and rescue missions along the desert border to find and return the bodies...

Porky is a tourist. He's missed the main camel, so he rents one of his own. Both of them are soon overcome by the hot desert sun; the camel starts...

Ambivalent about her pregnancy, Connie attempts to withstand the desert, her husband and herself.

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

Palm Springs, a small desert oasis 100 miles East of Los Angeles was Sinatra's true home for 50 years. During his brief yet turbulent marriage to Ava...

A dramatic parable of choice and resulting consequences. Synopsis: A man is traveling alone in his car in Southern California. The year is 1947. He...

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

A violent and ruthless bank robber hides out from the police scouring the countryside for him in the home of a couple living far out in the desert....

A composition of symbolic, surreal and almost mystic images.

The spoilt young son of a wealthy railroad owner manages to get himself lost in the middle of nowhere. He is found by a cowboy on a cattle drive and...

In this short film, a newlywed couple drive into Death Valley and wind up gambling for their life.

After being abandoned in the desert by his abusive stepfather, Phillip finds himself cruelly cast into a game of life or death until a beautiful...

A thirsty man searches for water in the desert.

In 1950, the explorer Roger Frison-Roche made a crossing of more than a thousand kilometers on the back of a camel with the photographer Georges...

Finding a man alone in the desert, Marshal Tom is relieved - of his horse, clothes and water. When he catches up to Raven, he finds him dying from...

As Tania leaves her hometown, she must confront what her absence will mean in the search for her disappeared father.

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

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...

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

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...