Movies and TvShows featuring "desolate" theme.
In the sequel to the popular sci-fi horror film Alien, a group of Marines is sent to investigate a space colony that has lost contact with Earth. They soon discover that the colony has been overrun by deadly creatures known as xenomorphs, and must fight for their lives to survive.
In a post-apocalyptic Australian wasteland, a cynical drifter named Max agrees to help a small, gasoline-rich community escape a horde of bandits who are pillaging for fuel. Max must navigate the dangers of the wasteland and protect the community from the brutal gang.
In the near future, after a cataclysmic event and with humanity nearing extinction, an inventor creates a robot with artificial intelligence. Knowing that he has limited time due to a terminal illness, he sets out on a road trip with his loyal dog and the robot in an RV. Along the way, they face various challenges and encounter the unknown, while trying to reach their destination and protect the robot from gamma radiation. Their journey becomes a symbol of hope and resilience in a desolate world.
Naked (1993) is a disturbing dark comedy that follows Johnny, a drifter who experiences a mental breakdown while wandering the streets of London. The film explores themes of loneliness, cruelty, and existentialism as Johnny encounters various strangers and engages in disturbing and nihilistic conversations. With its provocative and thought-provoking narrative, Naked pushes boundaries and delves into the depths of human nature.
In 'Husk,' a group of friends find themselves stranded in a dilapidated house surrounded by a cornfield. They soon discover that they are being attacked by a supernatural serial killer in the form of a scarecrow. As the night progresses, they must fight for their lives and uncover the dark secret behind the curse.
When a woman becomes stranded in the desert during a zombie apocalypse, she must fend off a relentless zombie that is determined to hunt her down. As she fights for survival, she faces various challenges and encounters darkly comedic situations.
An Australian lone wolf's quiet existence is shattered when he learns that the woman he once loved and thought was dead is alive and held captive by ruthless gangsters. Now, to take on this dangerous criminal organization, he must seek out allies and storm into a world of violence to rescue the love of his life in this gritty, modern day violent fairytale.
A gangster hires a mysterious rent-a-man for a subtle game of cat-and-mouse in the Las Vegas desert until a future-changing twist ending.
In Malevolence (2003), a group of bank robbers take a woman and her child hostage in an abandoned house. Little do they know, a brutal serial killer is lurking in the shadows, ready to unleash his sadistic and savage tendencies. As the night progresses, the helpless victims face unimaginable horror and must fight for their lives against a psychopath fuelled by panic and brutality.
Nora Scholar is now an interstellar bounty hunter, pursuing a powerful psychic on the desolate mining planet, Dazzle. There she befriends a would-be dancer named Max. Together, they take on the ESPer, Fuuchino, and his oversized bruiser of a brother, Touchino.
Lessons of Darkness is a surrealistic documentary about the aftermath of the Gulf War. The film explores the devastation caused by the war, particularly the burning oil fields in Kuwait. Through stunning visuals and a haunting soundtrack, the film captures the environmental disaster and the impact it has on the people and the land.
In 1952, a tubercular Inuk man from Nunavik is taken by force from his family and his land and transported to a sanitorium in Quebec City. Surprised by the white man's noncomprehension of the Inuit's social habits, the man's attitude varies by degrees, from outright hostility to cooperation. He is subjected not only to physical isolation but to cultural shock as well.
A young junior hockey player's life is shattered by an in-game act of violence. In an instant his life is abruptly turned upside down; torn from the fraternity of the team and the coinciding position of prominence, he is cast as a pariah and ostracized from the community. As he struggles with the repercussions of the event, desperate to find a means of reconciliation and a sense of identity, his personal journey ends up illuminating troubling systemic issues around violence.
In the movie Ravager (1997), a group of survivors find themselves stranded on a desolate planet after their spaceship crash-lands. They soon discover that the planet is infested with a deadly bio-weapon that infects anyone it comes into contact with. As they fight to stay alive, they must also find a way to escape from the planet and prevent the infection from spreading.
This Hungarian film chronicles the slow deterioration in the life of Juli, a farmer's wife. As the countryside grows ever more deserted because people are moving to towns or large collective farms, she spends more and more time alone. Despite her best efforts to appreciate her situation, her despair grows. The loneliness is briefly interrupted when she and her husband take in an old woman and care for her, but the woman dies. Shortly after her son visits, she is killed in an accident which may have been a suicide. ~ Clarke Fountain, Rovi
In the desolate aftermath of the Russo-Ukrainian war in the 2020s, a Ukrainian man struggles with life after war, dealing with PTSD, contemplating suicide, and uncovering a mass grave of war victims. The story explores the environmental destruction and the ongoing power struggles in Eastern Ukraine.
A poetic and metaphysical view on a daily life routine in a distant nursing home, on a top of the mountain in Uzice, Serbia – the closest place to heaven. This is the last station on earth for old people that called “clients”. While they’re waiting for the end of their lives, prisoned in a desolate nursing home and their old-dying body, they are fighting for the freedom of their soul, the only place they can feel young and alive. A fight between light and darkness, suffering and acceptance, life and death.
The Full Monteverdi follows the simultaneous break-up of six couples, from shocking revelation, vengeful anger and erotic longing for reconciliation, as an ensemble film. Vulnerable and disarming, it draws viewers into its emotional journey and intensely moving portrait of contemporary love.
The passengers of a bus are stranded by a flat tire and they face the horror of a seemingly-invincible winged Kaalo--who can not only travel under the sand but also fly, and who is determined to fulfill her deadly agenda at any cost.