Films and TV shows that feel like A Horse with No Name by America
A sun-baked, dreamlike drift through empty desert where solitude feels both liberating and slightly unsettling.
- Paris, Texas (1984): A man wanders out of the desert in silence, and the sparse, lonesome landscape matches the song's drifting isolation.
- Easy Rider (1969): Open-road freedom across the Southwest, with a folk-rock soundtrack and a touch of dread underneath.
- Badlands (1973): Dreamy, sun-bleached wandering through empty American plains with a hypnotic, detached tone.
- Vanishing Point (1971): A lone driver speeds through the desert in pure early-70s escape.
- Into the Wild (2007): A young man leaves society behind for nature and solitude, finding both beauty and danger.
- Breaking Bad (2008): The New Mexico desert is almost a character, wide, hot and indifferent.
- Nomadland (2021): Quiet, meditative drifting through vast western landscapes.
- Godless (2017): A harsh, beautiful western frontier with sweeping emptiness and lonely riders.
