Films set in New Mexico

1966 film directed by Sergio Leone

Oppenheimer is a 2023 epic biographical thriller film written, co-produced, and directed by Christopher Nolan. It follows the life of J. Robert Oppenheimer, the American theoretical physicist who helped develop the first nuclear weapons during World War II. Based on the 2005 biography American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin J. Sherwin, the film dramatizes Oppenheimer's studies, his direction of the Los Alamos Laboratory and his 1954 security hearing. Cillian Murphy stars as Oppenheimer, alongside Robert Downey Jr. as the United States Atomic Energy Commission member Lewis Strauss. The ensemble supporting cast includes Emily Blunt, Matt Damon, Florence Pugh, Josh Hartnett, Casey Affleck, Rami Malek, and Kenneth Branagh.

2011 film directed by Kenneth Branagh

2010 film directed by Jon Favreau

1965 film directed by Sergio Leone

2006 film directed by Kenny Ortega

There Will Be Blood is a 2007 American epic period drama film co-produced, written and directed by Paul Thomas Anderson, loosely based on the 1927 novel Oil! by Upton Sinclair. It stars Daniel Day-Lewis, Paul Dano, Kevin J. O'Connor, Ciarán Hinds, and Dillon Freasier. The film follows silver miner-turned-oilman Daniel Plainview (Day-Lewis) as he embarks on a ruthless quest for wealth during the Californian oil boom in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.

1997 film by Robert Zemeckis

2006 film by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris

1969 film by Dennis Hopper

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is a 1969 American Western buddy film directed by George Roy Hill and written by William Goldman. Based loosely on fact, the film tells the story of Wild West outlaws Robert LeRoy Parker, known as Butch Cassidy, and his partner Harry Longabaugh, the "Sundance Kid", who are on the run from a crack US posse after a string of train robberies. The pair and Sundance's lover, Etta Place, flee to Bolivia to escape the posse.

1952 film directed by Fred Zinnemann

2007 film by Kenny Ortega

1991 film by Ridley Scott

2015 film directed by Denis Villeneuve

1939 film by John Ford

1994 film directed by Oliver Stone

2008 film directed by Kenny Ortega

1940 film by John Ford

2004 film directed by Frank Coraci

2004 film directed by Paul W. S. Anderson

1999 film directed by Barry Sonnenfeld

1988 film directed by Ivan Reitman

1974 film directed by Martin Scorsese

2018 film directed by Shane Black

2001 film by Jerry Zucker

2019 American film by Vince Gilligan

1951 film directed by Billy Wilder

2016 film by Matt Ross

2010 film directed by Matt Reeves

2010 film directed by Todd Phillips

1991 film directed by Ron Underwood

2017 film directed by Alexander Payne

2018 film by Adam Robitel

2018 film by Stefano Sollima

2009 film by Scott Cooper

2018 film directed by Ethan and Joel Coen

1979 film directed by James Frawley

2006 film directed by Alexandre Aja

2010 film directed by Sylvain White

1990 film by Geoff Murphy

1945 film by John M. Stahl

1971 film by Robert Wise

2007 film directed by Martin Weisz

2007 film by Walt Becker

2015 film directed by Jonathan Goldstein and John Francis Daley

1978 film by Sam Peckinpah

2024 film directed by Rose Glass

1972 film by John Sturges

1965 film by Sam Peckinpah

2003 film by Ron Howard

1988 film by Christopher Cain

2007 film by Dave Meyers

Them! is a 1954 black-and-white science fiction giant monster film starring James Whitmore, Edmund Gwenn, Joan Weldon, and James Arness. Produced by David Weisbart, the film was directed by Gordon Douglas, based on an original story by George Worthing Yates that was developed into a screenplay by Ted Sherdeman, with adaptation by Russell Hughes.

1998 film directed by John Carpenter

1973 film by Sam Peckinpah

1976 British science fiction film by Nicolas Roeg

2021 film directed by Kevin Macdonald

1968 film by Edward Dmytryk

2009 film directed by Àlex Pastor and David Pastor