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1. The Flight of the Phoenix (1965)

Approved | 142 min | Adventure, Drama

After an oil company plane crashes in the Sahara, the survivors are buoyed with hope by one of the passengers, an airplane designer who plans for them to build a flyable plane from the wreckage.

Director: Robert Aldrich | Stars: James Stewart, Richard Attenborough, Peter Finch, Hardy Krüger

Votes: 22,438

2. Ishtar (1987)

PG-13 | 107 min | Action, Adventure, Comedy

Two terrible lounge singers get booked to play a gig in a Moroccan hotel but somehow become pawns in an international power play between the C.I.A., the Emir of Ishtar, and the rebels trying to overthrow his regime.

Director: Elaine May | Stars: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani, Charles Grodin

Votes: 12,065 | Gross: $14.38M

3. Legend of the Lost (1957)

Approved | 109 min | Adventure, Drama

American ne'er-do-well Joe January is hired to take Paul Bonnard on an expedition into the desert in search of treasure.

Director: Henry Hathaway | Stars: John Wayne, Sophia Loren, Rossano Brazzi, Kurt Kasznar

Votes: 3,755

4. Limit (1931)

Not Rated | 114 min | Drama, Romance

Three people (Raul Schnoor, Olga Breno and Tatiana Rey) sail aimlessly while remembering their past.

Director: Mario Peixoto | Stars: Olga Breno, Tatiana Rey, Raul Schnoor, Brutus Pedreira

Votes: 2,883

5. Hell's Heroes (1929)

Passed | 68 min | Western

Three bank robbers on the run happen across a woman about to give birth in an abandoned covered wagon. Before she dies, she names the three bandits as her newborn son's godfathers.

Director: William Wyler | Stars: Charles Bickford, Raymond Hatton, Fred Kohler, Fritzi Ridgeway

Votes: 967

6. When a Man's a Man (1935)

Approved | 72 min | Drama, Western

A man who has spent all his inheritance, finds meaning in life, and love, at ranch where his ingenuity is put to good use.

Director: Edward F. Cline | Stars: George O'Brien, Dorothy Wilson, Paul Kelly, Harry Woods

Votes: 105

7. L'Atlantide (1932)

Not Rated | 89 min | Adventure, Drama

Antinea. the Queen of Atlantis, rules her secret kingdom hidden beneath the Sahara Desert. One day two lost explorers stumble into her kingdom, and soon realize that they haven't really ... See full summary »

Director: Georg Wilhelm Pabst | Stars: Brigitte Helm, Pierre Blanchar, John Stuart, Tela Tchaï

Votes: 107

8. Missing Husbands (1921)

Not Rated | 172 min | Adventure, Fantasy, Mystery

Two men, lost in the desert, meet Queen Antinea, ruler of Atlantis.

Director: Jacques Feyder | Stars: Jean Angelo, Georges Melchior, Marie-Louise Iribe, Stacia Napierkowska

Votes: 427

9. Desert Nights (1929)

Passed | 62 min | Drama

A con man and his beautiful accomplice kidnap a manager and steal $500,000 worth of diamonds, but end up stranded in the desert without water.

Director: William Nigh | Stars: John Gilbert, Ernest Torrence, Mary Nolan, Claude King

Votes: 1,246

10. San Antone (1953)

90 min | Drama, Western

A Texas cowboy is in-love with the fiancee of a despicable Confederate officer whose life he must save after the Civil War when the officer, fighting as a mercenary in Mexico, is captured by Mexican revolutionaries.

Director: Joseph Kane | Stars: Rod Cameron, Arleen Whelan, Forrest Tucker, Katy Jurado

Votes: 191

11. Caliche Sangriento (1969)

128 min | Drama, History, War

The plot takes place in 1879 through 1880 during the War of the Pacific. The film decries the cruelty and absurdity of war and the disunity among the peoples of Latin America.

Director: Helvio Soto | Stars: Hector Duvauchelle, Patricia Guzmán, Jorge Guerra, Jaime Vadell

Votes: 109

12. Sankarialokas (1955)

82 min | Comedy

Young record store clerk and aspiring writer Esko has just finished his first novel and wants to marry a colonel's daughter. To get the father's permission, Esko has to join the military. ... See full summary »

Director: Aarne Tarkas | Stars: Lasse Pöysti, Leo Jokela, Jussi Jurkka, Tuulikki Suomela

Votes: 68

13. Airwolf (1984–1986)
Episode: Shadow of the Hawke (1984)

TV-PG | 110 min | Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi

Dr. Charles Moffet develops the new prototype super-helicopter code-named 'Airwolf' for 'the' FIRM (CIA cover), but at the demonstration for the brass shoots senator William Dietz, destroys... See full summary »

Director: Donald P. Bellisario | Stars: Jan-Michael Vincent, Alex Cord, Ernest Borgnine, Belinda Bauer

Votes: 362

14. Alfred Hitchcock Presents (1955–1962)
Episode: Escape to Sonoita (1960)

TV-14 | 30 min | Drama, Mystery

Two kidnappers think they have made their escape when they hijack a tanker in the dry desert, leaving the occupants and a female victim behind to die.

Director: Stuart Rosenberg | Stars: Alfred Hitchcock, Burt Reynolds, Murray Hamilton, Venetia Stevenson

Votes: 629

15. Border Patrol (1959)
Episode: Death in the Desert (1959)

Adventure

Jagger travels to Yuma, Arizona, to investigate a gang smugging aliens into the country from Mexico.

Director: Samuel Gallu | Stars: Richard Webb, Ron Hagerthy, Dallas Mitchell, Fred Sherman

16. The Chisholms (1979– )
Episode: Endless Desert (1980)

47 min | Romance, Western

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Director: Mel Stuart | Stars: Robert Preston, Rosemary Harris, Ben Murphy, James Van Patten

Votes: 9

17. Overland Trail (1960)
Episode: Sour Annie (1960)

60 min | Western

Sour Annie Tatum, an experienced female prospector, agrees to help Kelly, Flip and their men capture wild horses in exchange for a free ride into town. Annie is thrown from her horse during... See full summary »

Director: William Witney | Stars: William Bendix, Doug McClure, Mercedes McCambridge, Richard Devon

Votes: 9

18. Wanted: Dead or Alive (1958–1961)
Episode: Drop to Drink (1958)

Approved | 25 min | Western

Thieves are lying in wait to ambush mail carriers, so Josh is hired to help ensure that the mail will get through. The thieves have news about a $20,000 diamond ring that is being delivered.

Director: Don McDougall | Stars: Steve McQueen, Joe Maross, John Cliff, Victor Rodman

Votes: 138

19. Inés of My Soul (2020)
Episode: La tierra prometida (2020)

Drama

THE PROMISED LAND: Inés, Valdivia and the rest of the Spanish expedition finally leave for Chile. But to reach the 'Promised Land' they will first have to cross the Atacama desert, an ... See full summary »

Directors: Nicolás Acuña, Vicente Sabatini | Stars: Elena Rivera, Eduardo Noriega, Benjamín Vicuña, Enrique Arce

Votes: 21

20. Milton the Monster (1965–1967)
Episode: Dunkin' Treasure/Ferocious Fly/Monstrous Monster

TV-G | Animation, Comedy, Family

Milton's pet crocodile finds sunken treasure. Fearless Fly battles the wrestling Sultan of Fly-geria, Ferocious Fly. Prof. Weirdo's evil spirit solution turns Milton into a rampaging beast.

Director: Hal Seeger | Star: Bob McFadden

21. King of Shadows (2018)
Episode: The Rock and the Serpent (2018)

Documentary

Dalton Thomas exposits the story of Moses bringing water from the rock and bronze snake raise up on the pole.

Director: Dalton Thomas | Star: Dalton Thomas

22. Penny Dreadful (2014–2016)
Episode: This World Is Our Hell (2016)

TV-MA | 54 min | Drama, Fantasy, Horror

Hounded through the desert by Kaetenay and others, Ethan faces a reckoning. In London, Victor makes a dire modification to Jekyll's cure for madness.

Director: Paco Cabezas | Stars: Reeve Carney, Timothy Dalton, Eva Green, Rory Kinnear

Votes: 1,775