Sam Shepard
42 titles
Filmography
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The Right Stuff
(1983)From Chuck Yaeger -- the first man to break the sound barrier -- to the seven Mercury astronauts, it's the story of the birth of the U.S. Space Program.

Purgatory
(1999)
Voyager
(1991)Walter Faber has survived an airplane crash. His next trip is by ship. On board, he meets the enchanting Sabeth, and they have a love affair.

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.

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.

Fool for Love
(1985)As a woman awaits her boyfriend at a seedy motel, her old flame resurfaces, as does a threat that could destroy their last chance for happiness.

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.

Frances
(1982)Biography based on the life of Hollywood actress Frances Farmer who rose to stardom during the 1930s, until her life took an unexpected and tragic turn.

Resurrection
(1980)
Thunderheart
(1992)Val Kilmer stars as a part-Sioux FBI agent who rediscovers his lost heritage in this spellbinding murder mystery.

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.

Never Here
(2017)An artist’s life is flipped upside down after her secret lover witnesses a crime. To protect their relationship, she pretends to be the key witness.

Lily Dale
(1996)A portrait of a 1910 Texas family in turmoil when, after a long absence, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux reunites with his mother and his sister.

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.

Fair Game
(2010)Wife and mother Valerie leads a double life as a CIA operative. When her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticising the Bush administration, those closest to her become targets.

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.