Desert Survival Movies

Kinora's catalogue lists 16 films about survival and set in the desert, spanning 1943–2015. Each is tagged by where and when it takes place — filter by real-world setting, era, and environment, or open any film for its full tagged world.

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• 2010

  127 Hours

  Utah — 2000s
  Wilderness · Desert · Undergrounddir. Danny Boyle
• 1971

  Duel

  California — 1970s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Steven Spielberg
• 1996

  From Dusk Till Dawn

  Texas · Mexico — 1990s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Robert Rodriguez
• 1958

  Ice Cold in Alex

  Libya · Egypt · Alexandria — 1940s
  Desertdir. J. Lee Thompson
• 1981

  Mad Max 2

  Australia — Near Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 2015

  Mad Max: Fury Road

  Near Future
  Desert · Wildernessdir. George Miller
• 2011

  Meek's Cutoff

  Oregon — 1800s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Kelly Reichardt
• 2000

  Pitch Black

  Space — Far Future
  Off World · Desert · Undergrounddir. David Twohy
• 2002

  Rabbit-Proof Fence

  Australia — 1930s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Phillip Noyce
• 1943

  Sahara

  Libya · Sahara — 1940s
  Desertdir. Zoltan Korda
• 1965

  The Flight of the Phoenix

  Libya — 1960s
  Desertdir. Robert Aldrich
• 1988

  The Land Before Time

  Ancient
  Wilderness · Desert · Mountaindir. Don Bluth
• 1953

  The Wages of Fear

  1950s
  Desert · Wildernessdir. Henri-Georges Clouzot
• 1990

  Tremors

  Nevada — 1990s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Ron Underwood
• 1971

  Wake in Fright

  Australia — 1970s
  Desert · Ruraldir. Ted Kotcheff
• 1971

  Walkabout

  Australia — 1970s
  Desert · Wilderness · Urbandir. Nicolas Roeg