Highest-Rated Movies about 'Desolation'

Arizona Dream (1992), Tumbbad (2018), The Wind (2018), Stroszek (1977), Kings of the Road (1976), Down by Law (1986), Johnny Guitar (1954), The Passenger (1975) ... Let's take a look at the ranked list of the best Desolation movies.

#16. Lights in the Dusk (2006)

Storyline: Koistinen is a sad sack, a man without affect or friends. He's a night-watchman in Helsinki with ideas of starting his own business, but nothing to go with those intentions. He sometimes talks a bit with a woman who runs a snack trailer near his work. Out of the blue, a young sophisticated blonde woman attaches herself to Koistinen. He thinks of her as his girlfriend, he takes her on her rounds. She's in league with a crook who's planning a jewel robbery, and Koistinen is their patsy. Will he ever wise up?—<jhailey@hotmail.com>

Plot Keywords: crime, film noir, finland, loneliness, social outcast, grim, realism ...

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#17. Sands of the Kalahari (1965)

Storyline: A small airplane crashes in the sweltering deserts of southern Africa hundreds of miles from civilization. As parallels are drawn between the stranded group of seven passengers and a nearby pack of savage baboons, one of the men's survivalist nature gets the better of him, as he decides his chances of survival would be better if the other men were eliminated one-by-one.—Doug Sederberg <vornoff@sonic.net>

Plot Keywords: adventure, survival, desert, africa, struggle for survival, human nature, psychological warfare ...

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#18. Vodka Lemon (2003)

Storyline: In a remote, isolated Yazidi Kurdish village in post-Soviet Armenia, Hamo, a widower with a pitiful pension and three worthless sons, travels daily to his wife's grave. There he meets the lovely Nina, who is communing with her late husband. The two are penniless--she works in a local bar that is about to close down, while he has been forced to start selling his meager possessions. All seems hopelessly bleak, yet when Hamo begins to court Nina, their unexpected love revitalizes them.—Sujit R. Varma

Plot Keywords: drama, comedy, rural life, poverty, loneliness, elderly, cultural clash ...

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#19. Night of the Living Dead (1990)

Storyline: For reasons unknown, the recently deceased are rising from the grave as flesh-hungry zombies. Fleeing from the undead horde, a small group of survivors, including Barbara (Patricia Tallman), Ben (Tony Todd) and Harry (Tom Towles), sequester themselves in a remote farmhouse. With the zombies outside the house multiplying, tensions flare, as the group argues over the best way to escape their increasingly dire situation before they are overrun completely.

Plot Keywords: horror, zombie, remake, survival, apocalypse, dark, violence ...

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#21. The Rover (2014)

Storyline: Ten years after a global economic collapse, a cold-blooded drifter traverses the scorched Australian outback on a mission to track down the men who stole his last remaining possession - his car. When he crosses paths with a badly wounded member of the gang, he takes the vulnerable, naïve young man along as his unwitting accomplice.

Plot Keywords: post-apocalyptic, australia, violence, survival, revenge, loneliness, desolation ...

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#22. Daydream Nation (2010)

Storyline: Big city girl Caroline is new to a small town, she disregards her high school classmates, and then just for kicks starts a sexual relationship with her teacher, Mr. A. Meanwhile, there's a serial killer roaming the town, an industrial fire burning on the outskirts, and Thurston is mourning the loss of his best friend. As Thurston falls in love with Caroline, realities quickly catch up to all characters, and they are all going to have to mature or face the consequences.

Plot Keywords: coming of age, black comedy, small town life, teacher-student relationship, rebellion, sexual awakening, alienation ...

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#24. Expired (2007)

Storyline: Man or woman, the sight of a dark-suited municipal employee dolling out parking violations stirs a primal hate in all but the most enlightened souls. And the heroine of EXPIRED, the parking officer Claire, knows it. The film revolves around Claire, a kind soul who resents having to enforce the law at all times, and Jay, an angry traffic officer who loves his job, being the perfect outlet for his anger and frustrations. Coming both from a place of despair and loneliness, Jay and Claire meet and engage in a tumultuous relationship which will eventually teach them that love can spread his magic seeds of redemption and hope, even in the darkest and most perverted of all affairs. And don't forget to put money in the meter.—Anonymous

Plot Keywords: romance, drama, black comedy, independent film, urban life, relationships, loneliness ...

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#26. Far North (2007)

Storyline: In an indefinite time somewhere in the Arctic with Soviet soldiers, the nomads Saiva and her stepdaughter Anja are permanently moving seeking a safe place in the arctic tundra. They camp in a remote area far north where Saiva believes they will be safe and survive fishing and hunting reindeer and small animals. Their lives change when Saiva finds Loki, a frozen stranger that is dying in the ice.—Claudio Carvalho, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Plot Keywords: survival, arctic, solitude, betrayal, revenge, psychological thriller, female protagonist ...

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#28. Death Rides the Range (1940)

Storyline: Ken Baxter and his two pals, Pancho and Panhandle, discover Professor Wahl injured and wandering on the range. They take him to the Blue Mesa Trading Post, where two archaeologists, Dr. Flotow and Baron Starkoff, foreign government representatives, are staying. Both want to secure control of a supply of helium gas found in an ancient Indian cave. Wahl, working for the federal government, is murdered at the Blue Mesa. The land strip on which the cave is located is claimed by Letty and Jim Morgan, brother and sister owners of the Lazy Y Ranch. Tin Cup Ranch owner Joe Larkin hires Ken to take possession of a cabin on the Morgan land in order to gain title. Ken, an undercover G-man, finds a secret passageway from the cabin that leads to the cave. He discovers the helium and that Larkin is working with Starkoff.—Les Adams <longhorn1939@suddenlink.net>

Plot Keywords: western, b-movie, revenge, gunfight, mystery, black and white, 1940s ...

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#29. Valhalla Rising (2009)

Storyline: 1000 AD, for years, One Eye, a mute warrior of supernatural strength, has been held prisoner by the Norse chieftain Barde. Aided by Are, a boy slave, One Eye slays his captor and together he and Are escape, beginning a journey into the heart of darkness. On their flight, One Eye and Are board a Viking vessel, but the ship is soon engulfed by an endless fog that clears only as the crew sights an unknown land. As the new world reveals its secrets and the Vikings confront their terrible and bloody fate, One Eye discovers his true self.

Plot Keywords: violence, gore, norse mythology, silence, mysticism, revenge, survival ...

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#30. Cold Skin (2017)

Storyline: In 1914, just after of Franz Ferdinand's assassination that eventually caused World War I, a steamship approaches a desolate island on the edge of the Antarctic Circle, where a young nameless man is poised to take the post of weather observer, to live in solitude at the ends of the earth for an entire year until the arrival of his replacement. For the next twelve months, his entire world will consist of a deserted cabin, the surrounding sea, and dangerous strange beings that he discovers are sharing the island.—Darkwalker173

Plot Keywords: horror, sci-fi, thriller, monster, isolation, survival, dark fantasy ...

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