Desert Movies

In the middle of the California desert, a stranded man must make a deal with a mechanic when he arrives at his gas station. In his attempt to find...

A short documentary about Father Christmas' annual six-day trek through the Australian desert aboard the Tea and Sugar Train.

Marcus Flaminius Rufus is in search of a river that will give him immortality. Based on the short story by Jorge Luis Borges.

Burning in the desert sun, Eduardo - a lemonade seller - is fighting the urge to drink his last and final bottle of refreshing lemonade. When a...

A kid runs off to the desert to clear his head after the death of his older brother. In an attempt to find clarity, he begins to feel the weight of...

A rancher, thrown from his horse, must cross an inhospitable desert and avoid those who live there.

Short documentary on the making of Henry Levin's Genghis Khan, which filmed on location in Yugoslavia. The final film's epic battle scenes are...

A short documentary about Heidi Schwegler, a wildly imaginative artist who faced a crisis in her practice, went on a journey, and was then profoundly...

A Polish telephone company closes its gates. One last task remains to be done: The deassembly of the public telephones belonging to the company.

A 13-year-old German boy, Robert, (Max Kullman) sets out to try and find his father, who's in Turkmenistan. On his arrival there he meets up with a...

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...

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.

Determined to hit the road for their vacation, two gangster brothers engage in a state-of-the-art holdup unaware that their opponent, a bitter gas...

A camel's body lies in the middle of a desert road, exactly on the 147th kilometer, on the border between two settlements. None of them agrees to...

An epic war film about the battle of the Italian and Libyan armies.

Documentary short about a strange phenomenon where a phone booth that was in the middle of the Mojave Desert began to attract people around the world...

Stranded in a vast arid desert, two resentful lovers are forced to endure one another as they await their rescue.

This short travelogue, touring Arizona's deserts, was shot in VistaVision.

An ethnographic film that documents the efforts of four !Kung men (also known as Ju/'hoansi or Bushmen) to hunt a giraffe in the Kalahari Desert of...

Secrets and mysteries lose power when they are spread too widely. This is what the villagers discover when they invade an old man's vision-inspired...