Near Dark (1987)
Kathryn Bigelow's Near Dark strips every vampire cliche and builds a Western instead. That tension carries the picture.
Filming Location: Arizona
Films in this library shot in Arizona, a state whose desert and Monument Valley edge define the visual language of the western. Location data is sourced from Wikidata property P915, which records where a film was actually shot as distinct from where its story is set.
ArizonaPsycho (1960)
Hitchcock's adaptation of Robert Bloch's novel about a woman who steals from her employer and stops at the wrong motel. Psycho is Alfred Hitchcock's 1960 American horror-thriller adapted from Robert Bloch's 1959 novel, depicting a Phoenix real-estate secretary who steals…
ArizonaThree Kings (1999)
Russell's 1999 Gulf War heist. Clooney, Wahlberg, Ice Cube, Spike Jonze.
ArizonaClueless (1995)
Amy Heckerling's 1995 Beverly Hills Emma adaptation. Alicia Silverstone, Paul Rudd debut.
ArizonaDomino (2005)
2005 Tony Scott action with Keira Knightley as real-life model turned bounty hunter Domino Harvey. Domino is Tony Scott's 2005 American action film loosely depicting the life of model-turned-bounty-hunter Domino Harvey.
ArizonaOnce Upon a Time in the West (1968)
Leone's 1968 spaghetti western. Bronson, Fonda as the villain, Cardinale.
ArizonaThe Grapes of Wrath (1940)
Ford's 1940 Steinbeck adaptation. The film that established American social-realist cinema.
ArizonaDune (1984)
Seen four times, dated but good for its time. Visuals are still strange in ways no modern adaptation has matche.
ArizonaStagecoach (1939)
Nine strangers in a coach, each a study in social position. Stagecoach is the John Ford-directed western that revived the genre after a decade of decline and established the template that the next half-century of American westerns would follow.
ArizonaThe Searchers (1956)
Wayne as Ethan Edwards, racism poisons his own rescue mission. The film that taught New Hollywood to subvert genre.
ArizonaThe Prophecy (1995) Review
The Prophecy is one of the most underappreciated theological horror films of the 1990s and one of Christopher Walken's most committed performances. It grossed approximately sixteen million dollars in its initial theatrical release on a production budget of approximately eight…
ArizonaNext (2007) Review
Nicolas Cage's precognition thriller with two-minute future-seeing capability. The unreliable narrator ending recontextualizes the entire production.