Sam Shepard Movies

A small-town store owner with a comatose wife shares a long-term relationship with his seamstress.

Joe, an overwrought rancher is striving from his harsh upbringing, trying make a better life for his family. When his business falters, Joe fears his...

Documentary on film maker Akira Kurosawa

An impressionistic portrait of the iconic actor Harry Dean Stanton comprised of intimate moments, film clips from some of his 250 films and his...

A chronicle of legendary Native American poet/activist John Trudell's travels, spoken word performances, and politics.

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Curse of the Starving Class is a play by Sam Shepard, considered the first of a series on family tragedies. Drama about a dirt-poor 1950's-era farm...

A divorced female marine officer with two small children begins an affair with a senior officer.

A small-town father is forced to make difficult, heartbreaking decisions in order to save his two daughters.

A documentary portrait of Michangelo Antonioni based on Roland Barthes' essay.

The story of a woman who survives the car accident which kills her husband, but discovers that she has the power to heal other people. She becomes an...

Director Michael Almereyda's documentary on the weeks just prior to Sam Shepard's stage production of his play "The Late Henry Moss."

Ruffian is an American made-for-television movie that tells the story of the U.S. Racing Hall of Fame Champion thoroughbred filly Ruffian who went...

Produced by multiple EMMY® Award-winning executive producers Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman (HBO’s John Adams and The Pacific), and EMMY®...

An intimate portrait of poet, painter, musician and singer Patti Smith that mirrors the essence of the artist herself.

In 1969, Taylor Mead complained to his friend artist Wynn Chamberlain that Andy Warhol had never paid him for any of the work he had done for him and...

After generations of being apart, an accident brings a family back together and they begin to cope with their original issues.

A screenwriter gets conned out of selling a script to a Hollywood producer by his brother, who pitches his own idea for a movie. This video recording...

Sam Shepard's Pulitzer Prize-winning play in a production by The New Group. Dodge and Halie try to hang on to their farmland and their sanity while...

Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen...