Sam Shepard
32 titles
Filmography
32 results

Don't Come Knocking
(2005)During production on his latest movie, a washed-up Western star deserts the set and heads out on a journey of self-discovery.

Blackthorn
(2011)Living under an alias in exile, Butch Cassidy gets homesick, but before he can quit Bolivia, a young robber thrusts him into one last mad adventure.

Shepard & Dark
(2012)A documentary portrait of the unlikely decades-long friendship between actor and Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Sam Shepard and reclusive oddball Johnny Dark, through a correspondence of handwritten letters dating back to the 1960s.

Ithaca
(2015)With his older brother Marcus off to war, fourteen-year-old bicycle telegram messenger Homer Macauley comes of age in the summer of 1942.

Thunderheart
(1992)Val Kilmer stars as a part-Sioux FBI agent who rediscovers his lost heritage in this spellbinding murder mystery.

Baby Boom
(1987)When distant relatives drop a baby girl in her lap, a workaholic Manhattan business exec ready to be made partner has a life-changing choice to make.

California Typewriter
(2017)CALIFORNIA TYPEWRITER launches us into the bittersweet moment when a beloved technology, the typewriter, faces extinction. Delivering a thought-provoking view on the changing dynamic between humans and machines, director and three-time Grammy Award® winner and nominee Doug Nichol explores the mythology attached to the classic typewriter, as cultural historians, collectors and various celebrity obsessives (including Tom Hanks, John Mayer, David McCullough, and Sam Shepard) celebrate the typewriter both as object and means of summoning the creative spirit. The film culminates in the movingly documented struggle of California Typewriter, one of the last standing repair shops in America dedicated to keeping the aging machines clicking.

The Only Thrill
(1997)The story of a used-clothing store owner and a his seamstress, tracing their relationships from the 1960’s to the present, and those of their kids.

Defenseless
(1991)A lawyer has an affair with her client, then learns he is married to her college friend, who is soon accused of murdering him and needs her legal aid.

Days of Heaven
(1978)A story of love and murder told through the jaded voice of a child and expressive images of nature. Bill, a fugitive from the slums of Chicago, finds himself pitted against a shy, rich Texan for the love of Abby.

Cold in July
(2014)A brutal break-in triggers a downward spiral of lies and violence for a protective father and a murderous ex-con deep into the bloody heart of Texas.

The Pelican Brief
(1993)Julia Roberts who finds herself embroiled in a terrifying web of intrigue extending to the highest levels of government after she writes a legal brief exposing the illegal activities.

Raggedy Man
(1981)A divorcee with two sons has an affair with a young sailor passing through her Texas town in 1944.

Inhale
(2010)With his daughter dying of a lung disease, district attorney Paul Stanton enters the deadly Mexican underworld in search of an illegal organ transplant.

Brothers
(2009)Presumed dead, Capt. Sam Cahill returns home from a harrowing mission, only to realize the family life he knew has irrevocably changed in his absence.

Out of the Furnace
(2013)When his ex-Marine little brother disappears after joining a notorious crime syndicate, a Rust Belt steelworker gets armed and goes after him.

Trudell
(2005)The film traces poet John Trudell's (1946-2015) life from his childhood in Omaha, Nebraska, through his role as one of leaders of the Occupation of Alcatraz and Radio Free Alcatraz in 1969, to serving as Chairman of the American Indian Movement from 1973-1979. It also covers his rebirth as a poet after his wife died in a house fire suspected as arson.

The Accidental Husband
(2008)When talk radio host Emma Lloyd advises one of her listeners to break up with her boyfriend, the jilted ex sets about getting his revenge.

Stealth
(2005)Three of the world’s best pilots are partnered with a high-tech pilotless warplane, but soon it becomes clear that the machine has a mind of its own.

Mud
(2013)Two young boys become the only friends of a charismatic fugitive hiding out on a Mississippi River island and trying to reunite with his girlfriend.