Films
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1910s
In his 1919 book California Desert Trails, travel writer J. Smeaton Chase mentions that motion-picture people were in the Indian Canyons sometime before 1918. [1]
- Salomé – 1918 film [2] [3]
- The Heir to the Hoorah – 1916 film (starring Thomas Meighan, directed by William C. deMille) [4]
- The Lone Star Ranger – 1919 film (starring William Farnum and Louise Lovely) [5]
- The Lone Star Rush – 1915 film (starring Robert Frazer) [3] [6]
1920s
- Desert Gold – 1926 film [3] [7]
- The Covered Wagon – 1922 film [3] [8]
- The Leopard Woman – 1920 film [9] [10]
- The Orphan – 1920 film [11]
- The Sheik – 1921 film [3] [12]
1930s
- Her Jungle Love – 1938 film [3] [13]
- Lost Horizon (a.k.a. Lost Horizon of Shangri-La) – 1937 film [14]
- Palm Springs (a.k.a. Palm Springs Affair) – 1936 film [3] [15]
- Screen Snapshots – 1924–1958 short films
- Series 15, No. 7 (1936)
- Series 16, No. 6 (1937)
- Series 17, No. 5 (1938)
- Springtime in the Rockies – 1937 film
- Sunkist Stars at Palm Springs – 1936 film [10] [16]
- The Painted Stallion – 1937 film [17]
- They Made Me a Criminal – 1939 film [17]
- Under Two Flags – 1936 film (also in La Quinta) [10] [18]
- Whoopee! – 1930 film [10]
1940s
- A Night in Casablanca – 1946 film
- Girl Crazy (a.k.a. When the Girls Meet the Boys) – 1943 film [10]
- Hedda Hopper's Hollywood – 1941–1942 short subjects [19]
- In the Navy – 1941 film [17]
- Objective, Burma! – 1945 film [20]
- Rio Rita – 1942 film [10] [21]
- Sahara – 1943 film [10]
- Song of the Open Road – 1944 film [22]
- The Threat – 1949 film [10]
- The Time, the Place and the Girl – 1946 film
- To the Shores of Tripoli – 1942 film [3] [23]
- Two Guys from Texas – 1948 film
- Wake Island – 1942 film [17]
1950s
- 711 Ocean Drive – 1950 film
- Highway Dragnet – 1954 film [17]
- Omar Khayyam – 1957 film [24]
- Raw Edge – 1956 film [10] [25]
- Star Studded Ride – 1954 short film [26]
- Ten Tall Men – 1951 film [27]
- The Beast with a Million Eyes – 1955 film
- The Damned Don't Cry! – 1950 film [10]
- The Desert Rats – 1953 film [10]
- The Monster That Challenged the World – 1957 film [17]
- The Silver Chalice – 1954 film [28]
- The Veils of Bagdad – 1953 film [10] [29]
1960s
- Blood of Dracula's Castle – 1969 film [17]
- Common Law Cabin – 1967 film [17]
- Eegah (a.k.a. Eegah! The Name Written in Blood) – 1962 film [10]
- Palm Springs Weekend – 1963 film [10] [30]
- Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here – 1969 film
- The Professionals – 1966 film [17]
- The Rare Breed – 1966 film [17]
- The Satan Bug – 1965 film [10]
- The Wild Angels – 1966 film [31]
- The Wrecking Crew – 1969 film [32]
1970s
- 3 Women – 1977 film [10] [33]
- Damnation Alley – 1977 film
- Diamonds Are Forever – 1971 film [3] [10] [34]
- Gone with the Pope – 1976 film, released in 2010
- Hanging by a Thread – 1979 film [10]
- Institute for Revenge – 1979 TV movie [10]
- Kotch – 1971 film [10] [35]
- The Doll Squad – 1974 film [36]
1980s
- American Gigolo – 1980 film [3] [10]
- Fraternity Vacation – 1985 film [3] [10]
- Heaven – 1987 film [10]
- Less than Zero – 1987 film [3] [37]
- Lethal Weapon 2 – 1989 film [3] [38]
- Pee-wee's Big Adventure – 1985 comedy (at the Cabazon Dinosaurs near Cabazon [39] )
- Rain Man – 1988 film [3] [40]
- Rockin' the Night Away – a 1988 music DVD [41]
- Screenplay – 1984 film [17]
- Tough Guys – 1986 film [17]
1990s
- Bugsy – 1991 film [17]
- City of Industry – 1997 film [3] [10] [42]
- Joshua Tree (a.k.a. Army of One) – 1993 film
- Pacific Heights – 1990 film [3] [43]
- Road Kill – 1999 film [17]
- Six-String Samurai – 1998 film [10]
- Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies – 1997 short documentary film [44]
- Terminal Velocity – 1994 film [3] [45]
- The Moment After – 1999 film [17]
- The Opposite of Sex – 1998 film [10]
- U Turn (a.k.a. U Turn – ici commence l'enfer) – 1997 film [10]
2000s
- Alpha Dog – 2007 film [3] [10] [46]
- American High School – 2009 direct-to-DVD
- Andrew and Jeremy Get Married – 2004 documentary film [10]
- Auto Focus – 2002 film [10]
- Bone Dry – 2007 film [46]
- Bounce – 2000 film [10] [46]
- Circuit – 2001 film [10]
- Dog Tags – 2008 film
- Dream Slashers – 2007 direct-to-DVD
- Home – 2009 film (documentary by Yann Arthus-Bertrand) [47]
- Into the Wild – 2007 film [48]
- Laughing Matters: The Men – 2008 DVD with Bruce Vilanch and Alec Mapa
- Love Life – 2006 film [10]
- Mission: Impossible III – 2006 film [10] [46]
- Ocean's Eleven – 2001 film [3] [10] [46]
- Overnight – 2003 film [10]
- Phat Girlz – 2006 film [3] [10]
- Poster Boy – 2004 film [10]
- Searchers 2.0 – 2007 film [17]
- Soarin' Over California – 2001 film (part of a visitor attraction at Disneyland) [10]
- The Eyes of Tammy Faye – 2000 documentary [49]
- The Hoax – 2006 film [17]
- The Princess and the Marine – 2001 film (also filmed in Indio) [10] [46]
- The Scorpion King – 2002 film [10] [46]
- Torque – 2004 film [10]
- Trucker – 2007 film [17]
- Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman – 2009 film
- Wannabe – 2005 film [10] [46]
2010s
- Behind the Candelabra – 2013 HBO film about Liberace [50]
- Douchebag – 2010 film
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work – 2010 documentary [51]
- Desert Utopia: Mid-Century Architecture in Palm Springs – 2010/2011 documentary [52]
- Montana Amazon – 2011 film
- Senior Moment – 2017 film (in production) [53]
- Tim and Eric's Billion Dollar Movie – 2012 film
2020s
- Night Train – 2021 film.
- Don't Worry Darling – 2022 film.
