Stalker and Meek's Cutoff
143 Sahara Street
(Country: Algeria, France, Qatar; Year: 2019; Director: Hassen Ferhani; Writer: Hassen Ferhani; Stars: Chawki Amari, Samir El Hakim, Chawki Amari, Samir El Hakim)
Portrait of a roadside cafe owner.
Beau Travail
(Country: France; Year: 1999; Director: Claire Denis; Writer: Jean-Pol Fargeau, Claire Denis; Stars: Denis Lavant, Michl Subor, Gregoire Colin, Marta Tafess Kassa)
An officer recalls his life in the Foreign Legion.
The Big Trail
(Country: United States; Year: 1930; Director: Raoul Walsh; Writer: Hal G. Evarts; Stars: John Wayne, Marguerite Churchill, El Brendel, Tully Marshall, Tyrone Power Sr., David Rollins, Frederick Burton, Ian Keith, Charles Stevens, Louise Carver)
Before CinemaScope, before sound even knew what to do with itself, Raoul Walsh pointed an experimental 70mm camera at the open American wilderness and let it swallow everything in frame.
Easy Rider
(Country: US; Year: 1969; Director: Dennis Hopper; Stars: Dennis Hopper, Peter Fonda, Jack Nicholson)
Two bikers head on down to New Orleans for Mardi Gras. Roaring down the highway, travelling light and sleeping rough, they encounter the jagged edges of a deeply divided country.
Fata Morgana
(Country: West Germany; Year: 1971; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog)
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Considered by many to be the quintessential masterpiece among Werner Herzog’s early works, the film is an absorbing collection of images shot in and around the Sahara Desert, combined with poetic voice-over and music by…
Mimosas and Zabriskie Point
Highway
(Trassa)
(Country: France, Germany; Year: 1999; Director: Sergei Dvortsevoy; Writer: Sergei Dvortsevoy)
Two thousand miles of dirt road, one hand-cranked bus, and a family who has turned survival itself into a circus act: this is the world Sergei Dvortsevoy patiently observes in this film, tracing the Tadjibajevs as they…
Lawrence Of Arabia
(Country: UK; Year: 1962; Director: David Lean; Writer: Robert Bolt, based on Seven Pillars Of Wisdom by T E Lawrence; Stars: Peter O'Toole, Alec Guinness, Anthony Quinn, Jack Hawkins, Omar Sharif, Jose Ferrer, Anthony Quale, Claude Rains, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Wolfit)
A biopic of TE Lawrence focused on role in the Arab/Turkish conflict during the First World War.
Mimosas
(Country: France, Spain, Morocco; Year: 2016; Director: Oliver Laxe; Writer: Oliver Laxe, Santiago Fillol ; Stars: Abdelatif Hwidar, Ilham Oujri, Shakib Ben Omar, Ahmed Hammoud, Hamid Farjad, Said Agli, Margarita Albores, Laaziza Ikram, Moe Mohamed Oummad, Ahmed El Othmani)
Faust meets Arabic myth in the Moroccan desert.
Meek's Cutoff
(Country: US; Year: 2010; Director: Kelly Reichardt; Writer: Jonathan Raymond; Stars: Paul Dano, Bruce Greenwood, Shirley Henderson, Neal Huff, Zoe Kazan, Tommy Nelson, Will Patton, Rod Rondeaux, Michelle Williams)
Drama tracks a wagon train on the 1840s Oregon Trail.
The Naked Island
(Country: Japan; Year: 1960; Director: Kaneto Shindo; Writer: Kaneto Shindo; Stars: Nobuko Otowa, Taiji Tonoyama, Shinji Tanaka, Masanori Horimoto)
The struggles of a family on an isolated island.
Walkabout and 143 Sahara Street
Simon of the Desert
(Simón del desierto)
(Country: Spain, Mexico; Year: 1965; Director: Luis Buñuel; Writer: Luis Buñuel, Julio Alejandro; Stars: Claudio Brook, Enrique Álvarez Félix, Hortensia Santoveña, Francisco Reiguera, Luis Aceves Castañeda, Enrique García Álvarez, Antonio Bravo, Enrique del Castillo, Eduardo MacGregor, Silvia Pinal, Jesús Fernández Martínez)
For thirty-seven years, a real fifth-century saint stood atop a column in the desert, refusing to come down for anything the world could offer him; Buñuel's Simon does the same, and the world sends the Devil herself to…
Sirât
(Sirat)
(Country: Spain, France; Year: 2025; Director: Óliver Laxe; Writer: Santiago Fillol, Óliver Laxe; Stars: Sergi López, Bruno Núñez)
A father arrives at a rave deep in the mountains of southern Morocco with his son, looking for his daughter who has been missing for months.
Stalker
(Country: Russia; Year: 1979; Director: Andrei Tarkovsky; Writer: Arkady Strugatsky, Boris Strugatsky; Stars: Aleksandr Kajdanovsky, Alisa Fredndlikh, Anatoly Solonitsin, Nikolai Grinko, Natasha Abramova)
Sci-fi drama in which three men make a journey into the unknown in search of their deepest desire.
Vanishing Point
(Country: US; Year: 1971; Director: Richard C Sarafian; Writer: Malcolm Hart, G Cabrera Infante, Barry Hall; Stars: Barry Newman, Cleavon Little, Dean Jagger, Victoria Medlin, Paul Koslo, Robert Donner, Timothy Scott, Gilda Texter)
Cult movie about a car delivery driver pursued across the US by an ever-increasing number of cops.
Wake In Fright
(Outback)
(Country: Australia, US; Year: 1971; Director: Ted Kotcheff; Writer: Evan Jones, based on the book by Kenneth Cook.; Stars: Donald Pleasance, Gary Bond, Chips Rafferty)
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A young teacher gets more than he bargained for in a violent outback town, in a film that reportedly even gives Nick Cave nightmares...
Lawrence Of Arabia and Sirât
Walkabout
(Country: UK, Australia; Year: 1971; Director: Nicolas Roeg; Writer: Edward Bond, Donald G Payne, Nicolas Roeg; Stars: Jenny Agutter, David Gulpilil, Luc Roeg, John Meillon)
Two white Australian children are stranded in the Outback and survive with the help of an Aboriginal youth.
Zabriskie Point
(Country: US; Year: 1970; Director: Michelangelo Antonioni; Writer: Michelangelo Antonioni, Franco Rossetti (as Fred Gardner), Sam Shepard, Tonino Guerra, Clare Peploe; Stars: Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Paul Fix, G.D. Spradlin, Bill Garaway, Kathleen Cleaver)
A young dreamer steals a plane and flies it to the desert, but society isn't ready for his vision when he tries to return.
