American Desert Movies

List of the best American desert movies selected by visitors to our site: Dune, The Hills Have Eyes 2, 24 Hours to Live, Beyond the Reach, Mercury Plains, Transpecos, Jane Got a Gun, Ingrid Goes West, Phantasm: Ravager, The Boy.

In the top there are new films of 2023, a plot description and trailers for films that have already been released.

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Markimdb: 8.1
Genrefantastic, action, drama, adventure
CountryUSA, Canada, Hungary

Paul Atreides, a brilliant and gifted young man born into a great destiny beyond his understanding, must travel to the most dangerous planet in the universe to ensure the future of his family and his people. As malevolent forces explode into conflict over the planet's exclusive supply of the most precious resource in existence-a commodity capable of unlocking humanity's greatest potential-only those who can conquer their fear will survive.

Markimdb: 5.1
Genrehorror, thriller
CountryUSA
Duration01:29

    A group of National Guard trainees find themselves battling against a vicious group of mutants on their last day of training in the desert.

    Markimdb: 5.7
    Genreaction, thriller, fantasy
    CountrySouth Africa, China, USA
    Duration02:23

    An assassin seeks redemption after being given a second chance at life.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:32

    A high-rolling corporate shark and his impoverished young guide play the most dangerous game during a hunting trip in the Mojave Desert.

    Markimdb: 4.3
    Genreaction, drama, adventure
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:08

    A troubled man runs away to Mexico and is recruited to join a paramilitary group of teens fighting the drug cartels. He proves himself to the group, but questions their motive.

    Markimdb: 5.8
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:03

    For three US Border Patrol agents, the contents of one car reveal an insidious plot within their own ranks. The next 24 hours may cost them their lives.

    Markimdb: 5.9
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:20

    After her outlaw husband returns home shot with eight bullets and barely alive, Jane reluctantly reaches out to an ex-lover who she hasn't seen in over ten years to help her defend her farm when the time comes that her husband's gang eventually tracks him down to finish the job.

    Markimdb: 6.6
    Genrecomedy, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:21

    Ingrid becomes obsessed with a social network star named Taylor Sloane who seemingly has a perfect life. But when Ingrid decides to drop everything and move west to be Taylor's friend, her behaviour turns unsettling and dangerous.

    Markimdb: 4.9
    Genrehorror, fantastic, action, fantasy
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:42

    Brothers Mike and Jody join family friend Reggie to battle the Tall Man and his evil minions from another dimension, for the final time.

    Markimdb: 5.5
    Genrehorror, thriller, drama
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:36

    An intimate portrait of a 9 year old sociopath as he discovers his taste for killing.

    Markimdb: 6.2
    Genreaction, thriller, drama, military, sport
    CountryUnited Kingdom, China, USA
    Duration02:11

    19-year-old Billy Lynn is brought home for a victory tour after a harrowing Iraq battle. Through flashbacks the film shows what really happened to his squad - contrasting the realities of war with America's perceptions.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genrethriller
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom, Netherlands
    Duration01:26

    Filmed in 1993 but never completed due to River Phoenix's death, Dark Blood tells the story of Boy, a young widower living on a nuclear testing site in the desert. Boy is waiting for the end of the world and carves Katchina dolls that supposedly contain magical powers. Boy's solitude is interrupted when a Hollywood jet-set couple who are travelling across the desert become stranded after their car breaks down. The couple are rescued by Boy, who then holds them prisoner because of his desire for the woman and his ambition to create a better world with her.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genredrama
    CountryUSA

    A misfit group of New Mexico cowboys find themselves on the journey of a lifetime when they learn their crooked-footed racehorse qualifies to run in the Kentucky Derby. Based on the true story of Mine That Bird, the cowboys must overcome impossible odds even before they reach Churchill Downs and the land of Kentucky's blue bloods.

    Markimdb: 4.1
    Genrefantastic, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:50

    In the near future, when communications go offline at a remote nuclear power plant isolated in the desert, a young safety inspector, Abby Dixon, is forced to fly out to bring them back online. Once inside the facility, mysterious clues and strange behaviors cause Abby to have doubts about the sanity, and perhaps identities, of the two employees onsite.

    Markimdb: 6.3
    Genreaction, drama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration02:30

    Aging sidekick Lefty Brown has ridden with Eddie Johnson his entire life. But when a rustler kills Eddie, Lefty is forced from his partner’s shadow and must confront the ugly realities of frontier justice.

    Markimdb: 7.1
    Genredrama, western
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:46

    Three outlaws on the run discover a dying woman and her baby. They swear to bring the infant to safety across the desert, even at the risk of their own lives.

    Markimdb: 5.6
    Genreaction, thriller
    CountryUSA
    Duration01:39

    Sgt. James Dunn, who is wrongly accused of assassination of the officer he had a row with, is saved from death row and recruited for top-secret special operations squad led by Lt. Col Grant Casey. Their mission is to neutralize criminals who had avoided conventional law enforcement methods. On his first Mission, James is made the fall guy for the assassination of the first lady and everyone is loo

    Markimdb: 5.2
    Genrecomedy, melodrama
    CountryUSA

    Three very different people in their twenties try to figure out love, sex, identity and friendship in Los Angeles.

    Markimdb: 6.4
    Genrefantastic, action, fantasy, adventure
    CountryUSA, United Kingdom
    Duration02:08

      Fearing the actions of a god-like Super Hero left unchecked, Gotham City’s own formidable, forceful vigilante takes on Metropolis’s most revered, modern-day savior, while the world wrestles with what sort of hero it really needs. And with Batman and Superman at war with one another, a new threat quickly arises, putting mankind in greater danger than it’s ever known before.

      Markimdb: 5.2
      Genrehorror
      CountryUSA

      Four college students and an Iraq War vet, lost on a desert highway, encounter a terrified young woman with a black van on her trail. They survive the ensuing chase but their car doesn't, forcing them to seek help at a nearby ranch. Only when it's too late does the group learn that it's crossed the threshold into Hell! Welcome to the Web, home to a bizarre cult of murderers, perverts and mental defectives, whose sacraments include mutilation, dismemberment, unspeakable sex acts, and slow, agonizing death for all who enter. None of their "guests" have ever made it out alive. Tonight may be different...but don't count on it.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom

      On the run with the law on their trail, America's most anguished vampire family heads to England to find an ancient vampire clan. What they find instead could tear their family, and their throats, apart forever.

      Markimdb: 8.1
      Genredrama, film noir
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:51

      A frustrated former big-city journalist now stuck working for an Albuquerque newspaper exploits a story about a man trapped in a cave to revitalize his career, but the situation quickly escalates into an out-of-control media circus.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, crime
      CountryUSA, Germany, United Kingdom, South Africa
      Duration01:45

      Carl Lucas / Frankenstein has won four of his races and needs to win one more to win his freedom. Before his final race, Lucas and his team, car and all, are transferred to another prison where they will compete in a Death Race in the desert. Also, at the same time, Ceaser runs into a marketer who wants to franchise the Death Race program.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:35

      In the near future, society collapses and water becomes scarce. When a greedy water baron starts violently clearing out survivors, Kendal, a 17-year-old teenager, fights the baron's henchman to keep a well open.

      Markimdb: 4.6
      Genreaction, fantasy, adventure
      CountryUSA, Germany, Belgium

      The Scorpion King teams up with a female warrior named Tala, who is the sister of The Nubian King. Together they search for a legendary relic known as The Book of Souls, which will allow them to put an end to an evil warlord.

      Markimdb: 4.3
      Genreaction, thriller, adventure
      CountryUSA

      After being recruited by a group of unconventional thieves, renowned criminal Richard Pace finds himself caught up in an elaborate gold heist that promises to have far-reaching implications on his life and the lives of countless others.

      Markimdb: 4.4
      Genrefantastic, action, thriller
      CountryUSA

      A group of wayward teens at a wilderness boot camp must fight for their lives against the attacks of a ruthless blood-sucking alien. The attacks begin after they discover a strange "orb" in the middle of the desert. With no communication, and nowhere to hide, they realize their only chance for survival is to fight.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryMexico, USA

      Arnulfo Rubio smuggles weapons from Arizona to Mexico for a drug cartel, but he is being investigated by agent Harris. When agent Harris blows his covers, he and Arnulfo end up in a journey where he will be the hostage of this young criminal.

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genreaction, adventure
      CountryUSA

      When a young man's bride is kidnapped by an evil king, he turns to Hercules for help. The fallen hero has been living in exile, banished for killing his family, but the young man's courage inspires Hercules. Together, they fight to rescue the bride and reclaim the honor of Hercules.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      A young woman who lives in a desert trailer park must choose between caring for her hapless father and sick friend or fulfilling her own destiny.

      Markimdb: 4.7
      Genreadventure, family, cartoon
      CountrySouth Korea, USA
      Duration01:25

      Being teased for his color, Johnny the white koala joins a traveling carnival with Hamish, a Tasmanian devil, and Higgens, a photographer monkey as talent agents. On the way through the Australian outback desert, the trailer they are in comes loose and crashes. Johnny must live up to the hero status Hamish presents him as while the outback locals try to rescue a kidnapped koala from Bog, a giant crocodile and his dingo lackeys.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genreaction, drama, adventure, history
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:34

      A falsely accused nobleman survives years of slavery to take vengeance on his best friend who betrayed him.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genrehorror, thriller, drama
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:37

      There are terrible things happening in the desert...unexplainable, frightening things. Tragic, inexplicable incidents… ever since she arrived.

      Markimdb: 5.4
      Genrefantastic, thriller, detective
      CountryUSA

      A number of 'missing person' cases are reported in Phoenix, Arizona when an unexplained light appears in the sky one night in 1997.

      Markimdb: 6.1
      Genrecomedy, drama
      CountryUnited Kingdom, France, Germany, Mexico, USA
      Duration02:31

      Alan Clay, a struggling American businessman, travels to Saudi Arabia to sell a new technology to the King, only to be challenged by endless Middle Eastern bureaucracy, a perpetually absent monarch, and a suspicious growth on his back.

      Markimdb: 6.8
      Genreaction, adventure, western
      CountryUSA, Australia
      Duration02:10

      Seven gun men in the old west gradually come together to help a poor village against savage thieves.

      Markimdb: 7.1
      Genremelodrama, adventure, western
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:05

      Young scout Breck Coleman leads a wagon train along the dangerous trail to Oregon as he tries to get the affection of the beautiful pioneer Ruth Cameron and plans his revenge on the harsh scoundrels who murdered a friend of his in the past.

      Markimdb: 6.7
      Genredrama, military, biography
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:34

      One of the most celebrated war correspondents of our time, Marie Colvin is an utterly fearless and rebellious spirit, driven to the frontlines of conflicts across the globe to give voice to the voiceless.

      Markimdb: 5
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA

      Two dysfunctional couples rent a modern luxury desert home for the weekend hoping to sort out their messed-up lives. Just as they are about to settle in for a fun night, a neighbour turns up at their front door saying she has car trouble. And that's when the murderous trouble really starts. Because without knowing it, the four friends have landed slap-bang in the wrong violent place at precisely the wrong bloody time. Hopefully your nerves of steel will hold for one of the most stylish, atmospheric and terror-filled home invasion horrors of them all.

      Markimdb: 4.1
      Genrehorror, thriller
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:23

      Seven friends from Sacramento, California head out on a documented road trip to Las Vegas. Their trip takes a very unexpected turn for the worse when their back tires mysteriously blow out. A couple miles down the road, they find a little gas station Diner/Motel, run by the most friendly, polite and "helpful" people. It appears that their problems are solved, but boy are they wrong! When convinced by "The Helpers" to stay overnight, the friends all wake up in their rooms to a new kind of gruesome and bloody terror!

      Markimdb: 3.5
      Genrehorror, action, thriller, fantasy, adventure, western
      CountryUSA, United Kingdom
      Duration01:30

      When a nun broke her covenant with God to save the life of her unborn son, Aman, he was cursed for life. As an adult, Aman has killed those who have crossed him. But his curse brings his victims back to life and they pursue him for revenge, so Aman enlists a young gunman to fight by his side against his undead victims.

      Markimdb: 5.9
      Genrehorror, thriller, fantasy, detective
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:07

      The film contains five stories set on desolate stretches of a desert highway. Two men on the run from their past, a band on its way to a gig, a man struggling to get home, a brother in search of his long-lost sister and a family on vacation are forced to confront their worst fears and darkest secrets in these interwoven tales.

      Markimdb: 5.5
      Genrefantastic, comedy, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration01:55

      Based on the hit web series of the same name, the science fiction/adventure/comedy, Angry Video Game Nerd: The Movie, follows a disgruntled gamer who must overcome his fear of the worst video game of all time in order to save his fans. Hilarity ensues as a simple road trip becomes an extravagant pursuit of the unexpected.

      Markimdb: 5.8
      Genrethriller, comedy, crime
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:15

      Set in the midst of the 2009 housing crisis, the life of Cassie Fowler, a single mother and struggling realtor, goes off the rails when she witnesses a murder.

      Markimdb: 5.3
      Genrefantastic, action
      CountryUnited Kingdom, USA
      Duration02:19

      The story of humankind's last stand against a cataclysmic alien invasion. Set in the war-ravaged African countryside, a U.S. soldier and a French foreign aid worker team up to survive the alien onslaught. Their bond will be tested as they search for refuge across a crumbling world.

      Markimdb: 5.1
      Genredrama
      CountryUSA

      Three former band mates enter a cave after hearing it has the power to give them what they need. As unsettling desires rise to the surface, they all wonder if the cave has real power.

      Markimdb: 6.9
      Genrefantastic, action, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:20

      Through a series of daring escapades deep within a dark and dangerous criminal underworld, Han Solo meets his mighty future copilot Chewbacca and encounters the notorious gambler Lando Calrissian.

      Markimdb: 6.3
      Genrethriller, drama, crime, detective
      CountryUSA

      Deputy Sheriff Joe "Deke" Deacon joins forces with Sgt. Jim Baxter to search for a serial killer who's terrorizing Los Angeles. As they track the culprit, Baxter is unaware that the investigation is dredging up echoes of Deke's past, uncovering disturbing secrets that could threaten more than his case.

      Markimdb: 5.7
      Genrefantasy, drama, adventure
      CountryUSA
      Duration02:18

      A man who suffers visions of an apocalyptic deluge takes measures to protect his family from the coming flood.

      Markimdb: 6.2
      Genrethriller, drama
      CountryGermany, USA
      Duration01:41

      A psychic's ominous reading sends a man into a tailspin.




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