Bagdad Cafe (1987), Rango (2011), Faster, Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965), Play It as It Lays (1972), Destination Moon (1950), Edge of Eternity (1959), The Wild Angels (1966), Battle Los Angeles (2011) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Mojave Desert movies.
Storyline: Out of Rosenheim (Bagdad Café) is a look into the minds and lives of some people most of us have met but few of us know much about. This movie exemplifies how one person in the right place can affect a community of lives. The Adlons seem to express the view that all change and "magic" comes from hard work and mutual acceptance. A well-crafted view of the lives of tourists everywhere and the difficulties they can face. A Whimsical and lovingly Photographed look at the vast wasteland that is too often ignored by much of humanity.
Plot Keywords: tourist, innkeeper, tattoo artist, painter, son, magician, amusing ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Rango is a pet chameleon always on the lookout for action and adventure, except the fake kind, where he directs it and acts in it. After a car accident, he winds up in an old western town called Dirt. What this town needs the most is water, but they also need a hero and a sheriff. The thirsty Rango instantly takes on the role of both and selfishly agrees to take on the case of their missing water.
Plot Keywords: sheriff, outlaw, mayor, chameleon, snake, amusing, heartwarming ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Three strippers seeking thrills encounter a young couple in the desert. After dispatching the boyfriend, they take the girl hostage and begin scheming on a crippled old man living with his two sons in the desert, reputedly hiding a tidy sum of cash. They become houseguests of the old man and try and seduce the sons in an attempt to locate the money, not realizing that the old man has a few sinister intentions of his own.
Plot Keywords: go-go dancer, tough woman, race car driver, girlfriend, old man, mentally disabled person, fiery ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Maria Wyeth, an ex-model and B-movie actress, strolls on the grounds of a mental hospital, recalling the traumatic events which led to her breakdown. She is married to an unfaithful, self-engrossed director, Carter Lane. Neglected by her husband, Maria is engaged in a series of one-night stands and becomes pregnant. Her husband divorces her, and she has an illegal abortion. Maria's only friend is B.Z., a homosexual movie producer. World weary, he tells Maria that he has discovered the meaning of life is nothing. He invites her to commit suicide with him.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: actress, director, celebrity, husband, wife, producer, intense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Astronauts (John Archer, Warner Anderson, Tom Powers) land their rocket on the moon but must lessen the load a lot in order to get back.
Plot Keywords: astronaut, scientist, general, wife, industrialist, confident, gripping ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Helped by socialite Janice Kendon, Arizona Deputy Sheriff Les Martin works to solve three brutal murders in and around the Grand Canyon. His efforts lead to the killer fleeing with Janice as a hostage, and a chase by car and helicopter leading to a climax on a miner's bucket on cables a mile above the canyon floor.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>
Plot Keywords: deputy, sheriff, bar owner, socialite, foreman, brother, melodramatic ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Peter Fonda plays 'Heavenly Blues', the leader of the Angels, a motorcycle gang from San Pedro, California; Bruce Dern plays 'Loser', his best pal. When they both botch their attempt to retrieve Loser's stolen bike, Loser ends up in the hospital. When the Angels bust him out, he dies, and they bury him. Nancy Sinatra plays Mike, Blues' "old lady" and Diane Ladd plays Loser's wife (Dern's real-life wife at the time). The plot is basically a buildup to the last half-hour of the film in which Loser's funeral becomes another wild party.—alfiehitchie
Plot Keywords: biker, gang leader, tough woman, thief, police officer, nurse, gutsy ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Los Angeles and other cities around the world are being bombarded by meteors that seem to be slowing down once they hit the earth's atmosphere. The earth is suddenly being invaded by space aliens that have landed off the shore of LA, and who begin killing everybody along the beach. The military is ordered into action. Marine Staff Sergeant Nantz (Aaron Eckhart), who was about to retire, is reassigned to a new platoon. The platoon, flown by chopper to the forward operating base at Santa Monica Airport, is being led by a new 2nd Lt. Martinez (Ramon Rodriguez). They are sent on a mission to rescue some civilians who are trapped at the police station within alien territory. They only have 3 hours to complete their mission and get out before the Air Force bombs that zone.
Plot Keywords: sergeant, lieutenant, civilian, alien, enemy, marine, tense ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Madec, an unscrupulous international entrepreneur, hires the skilled young tracker, Ben, to guide him through the barren Mojave Desert during a hunting trip. Unfortunately, things will take a turn for the unexpected, when prideful Madec shoots the wrong target unintentionally, and in a cynical attempt to wash his hands of the irrevocable deed, tries to bribe himself out of this predicament by offering Ben a hefty compensation in exchange for his silence. Now, it's Ben's turn to run for his life under the fierce and merciless sun. However, even though the unforgiving desert is limitless, on the other hand, so is the prey's desire to survive. Who shall live and who shall die in this deadly cat-and-mouse game?—Nick Riganas
Plot Keywords: hunter, wealthy man, tense, thrilling, suspenseful, mojave desert, murder ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Suits on the Loose is the story of two rebellious teens, Justin and Ty, and their breakout from a desert survival camp. When two naive Mormon missionaries, Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson, run into a restroom at a remote rest stop, Justin steals their car. Scrapping their military fatigues for the conservative missionaries' tags in hopes of passing through any road blocks, their guise is so good that the police insist upon escorting the escapees directly to New Harmony, the town that's been anxiously awaiting their Mormon missionaries. As the two renegades find themselves embraced by the town's hospitality, they try to map out their escape. With Elder Talbot and Elder Johnson destined to arrive, what will happen when the town of New Harmony discovers that their missionaries are actually on the lam from the law? Can they keep up the charade and fool everyone around them or will they be found out?—HaleStorm Entertainment
Plot Keywords: teen boy, mormon, police officer, townsperson, amusing, cheeky, offbeat ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: David, an independent photographer, and Katia, an unemployed woman, leave Los Angeles, en route to the southern California desert, where they search a natural set to use as a backdrop for a magazine photo shoot. They find a motel in the town of Twentynine Palms and spend their days in their sport-utility vehicle, discovering the Joshua Tree Desert, and losing themselves on nameless roads and trails. Frantically making love all the time and almost everywhere, they regularly fight, then kiss and make up, with little else going on in their empty relationship and quite ordinary daily life--until something horrible and hideous brutally puts an end to their trip.—anonymous
Plot Keywords: couple, victim, photographer, emotional, mojave desert, town, lovers ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: An out-of-the-way diner becomes the unlikely battleground for the survival of the human race. When God loses faith in humankind, he sends his legion of angels to bring on the Apocalypse. Humanity's only hope lies in a group of strangers trapped in a desert diner with the Archangel Michael (Bettany).
Plot Keywords: archangel gabriel, husband, wife, teenager, waitress, angel, dark ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: Moronic American student Rusty arranges a student exchange program for his closest friends and him to study in Romania for six months and meet his Internet girlfriend Draguta. He travels with potheads Pete and Wang, Pete's girlfriend Lia and her twin sister Danni, the naive and romantic Newmar and his dippy girlfriend Lynne, the nerd Brady and his sexually confused roommate Mike, and crook Cliff. His friends actually intend to party. While traveling by train to Razvan they learn that five hundred years ago the vampire Radu lost his beloved Stephania, whose spirit was trapped in a music box. Ever since, Radu has kept Stephania's body while seeking the music box to bring her back. One of Radu's minions has recently retrieved the music box but, mortally wounded by the vampire slayer Teodora Van Sloan, drops the object in a gypsy's basket. Newmar unwittingly buys the music box and gives it to Lynne, who opens it and is possessed by Stephania. When all arrive at the university, they are welcomed by Dean Floca, who is a dwarf. Rusty meets Draguta and finds that she has a horrible hunchback. Not only is Dean Floca her father, he's a psychopath who keeps a torture chamber in the dungeon of his house for his daughter's jilting boyfriends. With Radu on his way - who is identical to Rusty - the brainless American students find themselves in a very messy and convoluted situation.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Plot Keywords: police officer, robot, alien, repairman, friend, doctor, thrilling ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A member of the U.S. Marine Corps (Robert Muller) is accused of murdering his wife, having been caught in the process of trying to dig her grave. The military police embark on an investigation, led by a captain (Tinka Menkes), in order to determine the events leading up to the woman's death. As the officers interrogate the suspect and venture into local bars frequented by Marines, a ghostly voice and strange, mythical figures mourn the woman's death.
Plot Keywords: marine, victim, police officer, suspect, spirit, dark, profound ...
Movie Details Click Here!Storyline: A teenage singer (Arch Hall Jr.) and the police find his girlfriend (Marilyn Manning), carried off by a giant prehistoric man (Richard Kiel).
Plot Keywords: caveman, teen girl, boyfriend, father, police officer, campy, suspenseful ...
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