Movies and TvShows featuring "salton-sea" theme.

A giant prehistoric creature awakens in the depths of the ocean and begins terrorizing a small town in California. As the creature wreaks havoc, a group of scientists and police officers must come together to stop it before it destroys everything in its path.

Little Birds tells the story of Lily and Alison, two teenage girls living in a small desert town in California. After Lily saves Alison from an attempted rape, they form an intense bond and decide to run away to Los Angeles. Along the way, they experience shocking consequences and learn valuable lessons about friendship and sexual attraction.

The Winning of Barbara Worth is a silent film about an engineer who works to develop the desert wasteland through irrigation. The film explores a romantic triangle between the engineer, a land developer, and a settler woman. It also includes elements of a classical Western, with scenes of sandstorms, rattlesnakes, and a payroll robbery. The story follows the characters as they navigate through various challenges, including a panic, lynching, flood, evacuation, and dust storms. Along the way, the engineer becomes a dam builder and adopts an orphan. Based on a novel, the film showcases the struggles and triumphs of transforming the barren Colorado River region.

Set against the backdrop of the Salton Sea’s booming lithium gold rush, two former fighters, each haunted by their past, cross paths in a desperate bid to secure the nation's future. As they navigate the treacherous underworld of this ecological disaster zone, they must confront their demons and the corrupt forces that threaten to destroy everything they hold dear.

Bombay Beach is a documentary musical drama that follows the lives of individuals living in a poverty-stricken community near the Salton Sea in the American West. The film delves deep into their struggles, dreams, and experiences, shedding light on various aspects of life in this unique environment. Through powerful storytelling and mesmerizing musical performances, Bombay Beach captures the essence of a community grappling with mental illness, poverty, and hope.

Under the thick gray fog and rain clouds of a San Francisco winter, Jenny's wedding approaches. She adores her fiancé, but is on edge about something she can't quite put her finger on. Then she finds an old photograph of her grandmother in her wedding dress, and everything seems to fall into place. She knows she must get married in that dress. Jenny's fears and doubt ignite into an obsessive journey to her estranged aunt's home at the Salton Sea, an environmentally devastated and long forgotten vacation spot, in search of the dress. In the blazing arid heat of this decimated landscape, and amid piles and piles of three generations of her family's hoarding, Jenny searches; looking for the dress, looking for her family's past, and looking for herself. In the brightness of the desert there is nowhere to hide and Jenny is forced to make some of the hardest decisions of her life so that she can realize her future.

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea (2004) is a documentary that delves into the unique community and ecological disaster surrounding the Salton Sea in California. The film explores the history, politics, and environmentalism of the area, showcasing the eccentric residents and the challenges they face. From retirement communities to religious fanatics, and from environmental concerns to the boom and decline of the resort town, this documentary provides a fascinating glimpse into this unusual and intriguing landscape.

In this Sports Champions entry, power boat racers use specially designed outboard motor boats in a race on California's Salton Sea.

The Call of the Wild is a 2007 documentary by independent filmmaker Ron Lamothe detailing the odyssey of Christopher McCandless, who is best known as the subject of the novel (and later film) Into the Wild. McCandless, a self-described "aesthetic voyager whose home is the road", died on Alaska’s Stampede Trail in August of 1992. His death followed a two-year cross-country odyssey that took him from Atlanta to Arizona, down into Mexico, and from California’s Salton Sea to the streets of Las Vegas and the small town of Carthage, South Dakota, and countless places in between. In the spring of that year, the 24-year-old McCandless had made his way north to Alaska, where he lived in the woods north of Mt. McKinley for 113 days before his death by starvation.

A music-based documentary that explores the Colorado River Basin from social and ecological perspectives across history. Brief voiceover texts—narrated by the great Shakespearean actor Mark Rylance—lead the viewer into each of the film's nine sections. Contextual images along with lyrics—sung by the 2014 Grammy laureate Roomful of Teeth—explore topics ranging from prehistoric settlements of the region to present-day plight of the Colorado River Delta.

"Sultan of the Sea" is an experimental narrative film about siblings, mental illness and abandoned places.