No Country for Old Men is set in the tundra of Alaska.
No Country for Old Men . The story occurs in the vicinity of the United States -- Mexico border in 1980 and concerns an illegal drug deal gone awry in the Texas desert back country . No Country for Old Men (film) . A cat-and-mouse drama starring Tommy Lee Jones , Javier Bardem , and Josh Brolin , it follows a Texas welder and Vietnam veteran in the desert landscape of 1980 West Texas .