"desert"
The Petrified Forest: Menace in the Desert
Short documentary about the making of "The Petrified Forest."
Women in Love: Helen Shaver and Patricia Charbonneau on Desert Hearts
DESERT HEARTS depended on the connection between its two lead actors, Patricia Charbonneau and Helen Shaver, and on their trust in director Donna Deitch. In the following program, made by the Criterion Collection in New York in 2017, the actors and the director discuss the making of the film, the close bond they formed, and the ways it changed thei..
Remembering Reno: Reflections on the Making of Desert Hearts
Filmed in Los Angeles in August 2017, director Donna Deitch, cinematographer Robert Elswit and production designer Jeannine Oppewall discuss their collaboration in creating the look of DESERT HEARTS.
A Patch Of Desert
Trapped in a vast desert, a girl must evade a long distance runner with a machete.
Desert Sands
The French Foreign Legion battles rebellious Arabs in North Africa.
Mysteries of the Desert
On the outskirts of the Salton Sea, Alice stops to help a motorist stranded by the side of the road. She finds a gravely injured woman fleeing an evil that neither of them may ever escape.
Deserter
A desperate woman who can no longer support her elderly mother with dementia takes her for one last drive.
Festival In The Desert
The much lauded 'Festival In The Desert 2003' was the first of two programmes to come from Mali. Winner of the Sony Gold Award the show includes music from Ali Farka Toura, Tinariwen, Robert Plant, Tartit and Afel Bocum. The festival itself is held in a nearby oasis in the southern Sahara Desert, and is the traditional gathering of the Touareg peop..
American Desert
Recently returned combat veteran Matt Benning (Will Brandt) finds himself entangled in a dangerous web of drugs, violence, and toxic love that eventually has him running-and hiding-for his life.
Achtung! The Desert Tigers
During World War II, an American major is captured by the Germans and thrown into a POW camp run by a sadistic Nazi officer, whose main pleasures are whipping the local female population and torturing prisoners. The major organizes an escape attempt using the camp's nubile female doctor as a hostage.
Deserted
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 refuge, the traveler quickly falls into debt with the man who holds the key to his survival.
Call of the Desert
Tod Walker takes Rex Carson's map to a gold mine and leaves him in the desert. Carson recuperates at Jean Walker's ranch and she takes a liking to him. But when her uncle Tod arrives, he claims Carson tried to jump his claim. She sides with her uncle and Carson, banished from the Walker ranch, sets out to get his claim back.
He Stands in a Desert Counting the Seconds of His Life
A film collage tracing the story of the lives, loves, and deaths within the artistic community surrounding Jonas Mekas.
Desert One
The true story behind one the of most daring rescues in modern US history: a secret mission to free hostages captured during the 1979 Iranian revolution.
The Last Chance Detectives: Legend of the Desert Bigfoot
It travels only at night, is taller than any person and has incredible strength. Can the legends about Bigfoot be true? When metal doors are ripped apart and campers are terrorized, kid detectives Mike, Ben, Winnie and Spence set out to solve the mystery - and learn about integrity in the process.
The Desert Said Dance
Anyone can enter the Baja 1000, but not everyone finishes it. Some aren’t tough enough. Some don’t have bikes that are tough enough. And some make mistakes that take them out of the race. Sometimes, tragically, forever. This is a place where dreams go to die. Grand visions and hopes, materialized, but rarely sustained. The desert has this myste..
Des filles pour les mercenaires
Quatre mercenaires, employés par un pays africain, sont chargés de négocier un achat d'armes. Ils s'emparent de la somme prévue pour les négociations et trois d'entre eux s'enfuient en Espagne après avoir abandonné le quatrième dans la brousse. Ce dernier parvient à survivre et retrouve alors ses complices qui mènent une vie tranquille...
Fugitive Nights: Danger in the Desert
A lady private eye on her first job working a routine divorce case teams up with a cynical, heavy-drinking police detective after inadvertently stumbling upon a much bigger caper involving a mysterious fugitive.
Heritage of the Desert
A young man must defend his land from claim jumpers in this adaptation of the popular Zane Grey novel.
Desert Coffee
In the Californian part of the Sonoran desert, in the close vicinity of military bases, there is a “wild” town called Slab City inhabited by the refugees from the American Dream. Of different age, they brought with them various stories, but all chose freedom, even for the price of the most basic comforts. The only place equipped with electricit..
