Bring me your tired, your poor, your movie recs

I feel like binging on movies to grease the gears for Kingdoms. Spy movies, adventure movies, movies about unearthing ancient evils. Bonus points for desert settings. (In this case I would prefer fun movies, as opposed to good-but-depressing movies like Syriana.)

I know and/or own many appropriate films, but I'd like to hear your suggestions. What are your favorites in the spy/adventure/desert/explosions categories? What hidden gems have I missed?

The friend of the dead man promises he will never forget

Kingdoms of Dust

Words tonight: 927
Words total: 9650
Reason for stopping: scene
Beverage: jasmine tea
Tyop: n/a
Darling: Miles away, past the farthest reaches of the desert and the warding rush of the River Ash, the jinn who was now a man woke again to his prison of flesh.

Yeah, this is how jinn-boy talks. He just gave me a prologue of ominous portent in the purplest prose in purpletown. I'm doomed.