Sam ShepardFilmography

Darling Companion

Kevin Kline teams reunites with his Big Chill director Lawrence Kasdan on this comedy drama about a couple (Kline and...

Safe House

A rookie CIA operative goes on the run with a rogue former intelligence officer after a South African safe house comes under...

Blackthorn

Longtime screenwriter Mateo Gil (Open Your Eyes, The Sea Inside) returns to the director's chair for his second feature, a...

Fair Game

The Bourne Identity director Doug Liman teams with screenwriters Jez Butterworth and John-Henry Butterworth to streamline...

Inhale

A Santa Fe district attorney and his wife take desperate measures to find a lung donor for their dying daughter in this...

Brothers

Jim Sheridan's film, adapted from Susanne Bier's 2004 movie, concerns Captain Sam Cahill (Tobey Maguire), a Marine who...

Patti Smith: Dream of Life

Filmmaker Steven Sebring directs this documentary about legendary musician Patti Smith, surveying her life, her career, and...

Felon

A loving husband and father finds his promising future transformed into a waking nightmare when he's convicted of involuntary...

Bound to Lose

Filmmakers Paul Lovelace and Sam Wainwright Douglas invite viewers to follow the tale of two true American originals in this...

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Brad Pitt stars as legendary Wild West outlaw Jesse James in Chopper director Andrew Dominik's cinematic rendering of the...

The Accidental Husband

A radio talk-show host who specializes in repairing damaged relationships finds her life suddenly turned upside down when a...

Charlotte's Web

E.B. White's classic children's story comes to the screen in this live-action adaptation with an all-star voice cast. Fern...

The Return

A self-assured Midwestern girl finds her confidence gradually crumbling as a barrage of terrifying visions prompt her to...

Don't Come Knocking

Director Wim Wenders and writer Sam Shepard, who collaborated on the award-winning film Paris, Texas, once again join forces...

Bandidas

Latina heartthrobs Salma Hayek and Penélope Cruz co-headline the rousing indie Western Bandidas. The brainchild of...

Walker Payne

Desperate circumstances force a man to make a terrible choice in this period drama. It's 1957, and Walker Payne...

Ruffian

Prolific French filmmaker Yves Simoneau directs Sam Shepard and Frank Whaley in a sports drama detailing the remarkable...

Stealth

The latest innovation in high-tech defense hardware turns out to have a very dangerous mind of its own in this action...

The Notebook

Directed by Nick Cassavetes, this adaptation of author Nicholas Sparks' bestselling novel revolves around Noah Calhoun's...

This So-Called Disaster

In 2000, director Michael Almereyda brought his film crew to San Francisco to document the rehearsal process for the Magic...

See You in My Dreams

Based on short stories written by Sam Shepard and published in his semi-autobiographical collections Crusing Paradise and...

Blind Horizon

A man with no memory struggles to make sense of the troubling details that are still stuck in his mind in this psychological...

New York Profile: Joe Chaikin's Life in Theater

Leo

A literary drama offering the parallel tales of two wounded souls, director Mehdi Norowzian's tale of redemption and the...

True West

Written in 1982, Sam Shepard's darkly hilarious stage play True West was given its first important American staging at...

Black Hawk Down

A quickly forgotten chapter in United States military history is relived in this harrowing war drama from director Ridley...

Swordfish

Director Dominic Sena follows up his stylish action film Gone in 60 Seconds (2000) with this high-tech thriller. John...

The Pledge

Sean Penn directed this tense drama of loyalty, honor, and obsession, based on a novel by Friedrich Durrenmatt. Jerry Black...

Kurosawa

Akira Kurosawa was arguably the most important Japanese filmmaker who ever lived; he was certainly among the most revered and...

After the Harvest

The made-for-cable drama After the Harvest was based on Martha Ostenso's 1927 novel Wild Geese, and was first broadcast in...

All the Pretty Horses

Director Billy Bob Thornton explores coming of age in this Western based on Cormac McCarthy's prize-winning novel of the same...

Hamlet

William Shakespeare's classic tale is brought to the screen for the third time in ten years in this modernized...

One Kill

Marine Captain Mary Jane O'Malley (Anne Heche), a divorced mother of two small children, shoots and kills her decorated war...

Snow Falling on Cedars

Nine years after the bombing of Pearl Harbor, a small town in the Pacific Northwest still struggles with the troubling legacy...

Simpatico

Old rivalries lead to new betrayals in this Sam Shepard drama with comic undertones. Vinnie (Nick Nolte) and Carter...

Purgatory

In this fantasy set in the Old West, Blackjack Britton (Eric Roberts) is an outlaw on the run from police after a bank...

Dash and Lilly

Oscar-winning actress Kathy Bates directed this made-for-cable feature inspired by the true story of one of America's...

Curtain Call

In this romantic comedy with supernatural touches, Stevenson Lowe (James Spader) works for a large publishing house, editing...

Sam Shepard: Stalking Himself

This hour-long documentary presents the playwright, actor, and director Sam Shepard giving viewers a glimpse of his inner...

The Only Thrill

In this drama about love and how it can go wrong, Reese McHenry (Sam Shepard) is the owner of a clothing store who, in 1966,...

Lily Dale

A production of Hallmark Hall of Fame that originally aired on the Showtime Cable Network, this family drama tells the moving...

Streets of Laredo

This miniseries follows the original Lonesome Dove miniseries, and both are based on the characters created by Pulitzer...

The Good Old Boys

Tommy Lee Jones made his directorial debut in this made-for-television movie about an aging cowboy dealing with the changing...

Curse of the Starving Class

Based on the award-winning play by Sam Shepard, this drama offers an unblinking look at a family desperately clinging to the...

Safe Passage

A large, dysfunctional family awaits word on a loved one's fate in this domestic drama starring Susan Sarandon as Mag Singer,...

Silent Tongue

Playwright Sam Shepard wrote and directed this bizarre combination of western film revisionism and Greek tragedy. Silent...

The Pelican Brief

Embroiled in an affair with Thomas Callahan (Sam Shephard), her alcoholic professor, precocious 24-year-old Tulane University...

Thunderheart

Actor Robert De Niro started a production company to make films just like this one: stories which were unpopular with the...

Voyager

Set in the 1950s, Voyager concerns the travels of an American construction engineer (Sam Shepard) who is wandering throughout...

Defenseless

In this suspense drama, a lawyer finds out more than she wanted to know about her friends and lovers. T.K. Katwuller...

Bright Angel

This contemporary western stars Dermot Mulroney as a Montana teenager whose sanity is being eroded by his parent's domestic...

Steel Magnolias

The title refers to those seemingly frail Southern belles who survive any and all deprivations through whims of iron....

Far North

Writer/director Sam Shepard's jaundiced view of "Lake Woebegone" territory is essentially a vehicle for his lady fair...

Baby Boom

Management consultant Diane Keaton has no time in her life for anything except her high-profile job. All this changes when...

Crimes of the Heart

Adapted from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Beth Henley (who also penned the screenplay), Crimes of the Heart stars three...

True West

Originally aired on American public television, True West is a filmed performance of the Steppenwolf Theater Company's...

Fool for Love

Though there are several actors in Fool for Love, two share the majority of screen time: Sam Shepard as Eddie, and...

Country

Released in the mid-1980s, this farm drama stars Jessica Lange and Sam Shepard as Jewell and Gil Ivy, who run a small farm in...

Paris, Texas

Travis (Harry Dean Stanton) is wandering through the Texas desert, a bit shaky and in desperate need of water, when he...

The Right Stuff

Covering some 15 years, The Right Stuff recounts the formation of America's space program, concentrating on the original...

Frances

As played by Jessica Lange, Frances Farmer is a rebel from the word go, winning a high school essay award by writing a piece...

Raggedy Man

Sissy Spacek was directed by her husband Jack Fisk in 1981's Raggedy Man. Spacek plays a divorced mother of two who tries to...

Resurrection

Ellen Burstyn plays Edna McCauley, the wife of a man (Jeffrey DeMunn) who is killed in an auto crash. Edna herself survives,...

Renaldo and Clara

Bob Dylan made this concert film that chronicles a 1975/1976 performance of his Rolling Thunder Revue. In between songs he,...

Days of Heaven

Terrence Malick's Days of Heaven, the long-awaited follow-up to his 1973 debut Badlands, confirmed his reputation as a visual...

Oh! Calcutta!

A production of Oh! Calcutta!, the late-'60s off-Broadway play that received infamy as the first nude musical, is captured...

Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point, director Michelangelo Antonioni's only American film, is an unusual, visually stunning examination of...

Bronco Bullfrog

Sam Shepard plays Irish prison escapee Jo Bronco Bullfrog. Hiding out in a seamy section of London's East End, Bullfrog...

Me and My Brother

This documentary about poet Peter Orlovsky's schizophrenic brother, Julius, is a film within a film and is generally regarded...