The Black Desert / 2008

Across a vaguely historical territory – the Argentine pampas at the end of the nineteenth century – a manhunt takes place: cavalry soldiers track a gaucho guilty of an infamous crime. The outlaw is tormented by the memories of his past. The hunt will not cease for days, perhaps weeks. One afternoon, the far away figure of the fugitive becomes visible to the posse. A young army officer faces the doubtful glory of killing. But this is just the beginning, because in the desert, time is circular, justice a fragile dream, and reality a feverish reflection.

Desert Caravans / 1975

Quattro notti con Alba / 1962

Una pattuglia italiana in Libia perde i contatti col proprio reparto. Ad essa si aggrega una prostituta che il comandante protegge dalle brame dei soldati. Dopo qualche scontro con il nemico, i nostri tornano sani e salvi alla base.

Desert Ghoul / 1969

A few men and women who went to the desert for a picnic meet two "giants". The giants fight because of one of the girls and their work is dragged to the city. Urban civilization gradually turns them into two different beings. Desert giants learn how to live and love in the city and then return to their village with the girls they have married.

Desert Space / 2021

In northern Chile, Leonel Codoceo (58), a lonely security guard for a mining company, dedicates his free time to unveil the mysteries of extraterrestrial life. Confident in the existence of beings from another planet, Leonel organizes what will be the first UFO vigil open to the public in an emblematic place in the Atacama Desert. At the same time, he prepares for the arrival of Sara (57), his ex-wife, who will arrive in Copiapó from Australia to remarry him. Under the starry blanket of the night sky and the immensity of the desert, Leonel will seek to make contact for the first time.

Duel in the Desert / 1977

The setting for this tale is an inn where people come from all corners of China every 5 years to witness and participate in a prestigious horse race. However, the inn is also swarming with thieves and con-men looking to score. Angela Mao plays the innkeepers daughter and she sends the villains back to where they came from in a series of great fights. Angela Mao using the Snake fist is a must see.

Young Sons Of The Desert /

Five young Qatari men, used to Twenty-first Century life in the Gulf, take on the ancient desert traditions of their forefathers. They’re physically and mentally pushed to their limits by a wise Desert Sheik in some of the most severe desert conditions on the planet. Learning ancient desert skills; they will face specific tests as individuals and as a group, and they will live through the same adversity as their ancestors. How will they survive?

Green Desert / 2012

The average European has never been as responsible for the devastation of tropical rainforests as he is today. What causes it and can we prevent it? Michal Gálik's documentary Green Desert, which takes us to the tropical island of Borneo, will not only provide us with the answer to these questions, but will also tell us the startling secret that the palm oil industry hides. The film Green Desert gives a real-life account of the problems caused by oil palm cultivation in Borneo. The documentary is not just a story about palm oil, it is also a story about global responsibility and how we, as consumers, have enormous power in our hands when our purchasing decisions can affect what happens on the other side of the planet. The viewer gets the opportunity to delve deeper into the issue through real stories and interviews with local people and experts.

Desert Tested (Susita) / 2020

For many years Susita car was considered a groundbreaking Israeli invention that had put Israel on the global map. The young State of Israel was convinced it had started a revolution. The car, with its fiberglass shell, brought glory to the State. Today, five decades later, it is time to reveal the unbelievable story: the story about one man that believed SUSITA would change the world.

Son of the desert / 1942

The son of Sheikh Makhlouf, the ruler of one of the tribes in the desert, returns to the tribe after completing his education in Cairo, only to be surprised by the killing of his father and the control of a villain over the tribe. The people of the tribe try to urge him to take revenge, but he pretends to be weak.

La canzone del deserto / 1939

When the famous singer Grace Collins got off the plane that had flown her a remote place in Northen Africa little did she know she would meet love and adventure there. If she came there, it was to visit Sir Collins, her stepfather. Falling in love was not on the agenda but how could she resist the charm of Nic Brenten, an alluring and idealistic Dutch engineer? Butcan devotion and generosity really compete with the greed of someone like Sir Collins, a cynical financier who wants to dispossess the locals of the copper mine Brenten helps them to develop ?...

Deserters / 2022

“I had many friends before the war; many of them are dead now”, one of the narrators comments, looking at a photo of her classmates. “We had a perfect life, but we were never satisfied,” she adds laconically. The secondary school in Mostar united them, the War of Independence divided them. This mosaic of memories of the early 1990s is composed of contemporary postcards and silent shots of places where wars were once fought. Their calmness today contrasts with the emotional excerpts from the letters of the Croatian students. They describe their flight across the border, their experiences in refugee camps, and their lingering hatred of the enemies who robbed them of their home and youth.

Living There Is Not Hell, It Is the Fire of the Desert. The Plenitude of Life That Stayed There Like a Tree / 2018

The wind, the birds, the sweat, the hands, the wheelbarrow, the drought and the burial. Could it be possible to disappear in the desert? Totoral is a village that fades away behind its hills. A village that emerged and learned from the land and its animals, and from staying safe. The desert is constantly changing, the trees dry up, and they, the men, with their animals, wipe away their footsteps and their presence as time goes by.

The Desert Island / 1938

Rose Of The Desert / 1989

An oasis lost in the Saharan desert more than 700km from Algiers. A society still functioning on centuries-old rituals. The only connection to the city is a bus that passes once a day. Moussa, disabled from birth, lives there with his sister Zineb; They try, together, to reconstitute a family unit that the war has destroyed. The family is the dream of the idyllic times of childhood, of times when parents took all the responsibilities. Moussa is perfectly independent, although he has no arms, he nevertheless loves being cared for by his sister. Zineb, for her part, does not dare to face the new world that a marriage would constitute. Life passes punctuated by the same gestures. Zineb takes the bus to go to work at the date packaging factory. Moussa goes to see the schoolmaster, draws or dreams of Mériem, the woman he loves. A rose secretly grows in the sand, which Moussa waters every day.

GIADO – Holocaust in the Desert /

For seven decades, Yosef Dadush concealed a private diary, securely locked away in a closet at his home. Now, he grants us the precious opportunity to peer into the harrowing existence endured by the inmates of Giado - a concentration camp situated in the heart of the Libyan Desert.

La prigioniera del deserto / 19908.01 voti

A European researcher is abducted by some ill-educated rebels in a North African country. Their reasons are unclear...

Iceland: Lost in the Desert / 2024

13 years ago, they didn't know what it was like to cycle in a harsh country. What it means to be knocked off their feet by winds. What it's like to wade through cold glacial rivers. For Algirdas, Iceland was the start of his travels, which led to trips to Mongolia, Kyrgyzstan, India, Namibia and countless other countries. After 13 years of wandering, he returns to Iceland to find that what once seemed the most spectacular, beautiful and perfect country is still the same. This time, not without a bike, but with the same uncertainty in his heart: after travelling the world, will Iceland still look like a fairy-tale land? Or has it changed into an unrecognisable land, trampled by tourists...? In this adventure documentary, Dagne, who is seeing Iceland for the first time, travels across the island's inner wilderness, searching for those untouched shards of beauty, and occasionally discovering themselves instead.

Desert Chasing Bandits / 1959

A squad of PLA traces bandits in the desert.

Namibia's Bat-eared Foxes: Survivalists of the Desert / 2007

Their huge ears locate the underground crawling sounds of beetles, larvae, and other insects in the sands of the Kalahari desert. But their resemblance to the thieving jackal lead to their inadvertent targeting by farmers defending their livestock. With their numbers dwindling, the bat-eared foxes of southern Namibia have become the passion project of veterinarian Margit Du Toit.