Sam Shepard
Director, Actor
Films to Rent
- Days of Heaven (1979)
- Dir. Terrence Malick
Feat. Sam Shepard, Richard Gere, Brooke Adams…
- The mid–western wheat–fields provide a magnificent backdrop for this poignant tale of two disparate bachelors who vie for the same woman.…
- Raggedy Man (1981)
- Dir. Jack Fisk
Feat. Sissy Spacek, Eric Roberts, Sam Shepard…
- Texas–set drama led by Spacek (fresh from her Oscar winning performance in COAL MINER'S DAUGHTER) portraying a perturbed divorcee mother who…
- Frances (1982)
- Dir. Graeme Clifford
Feat. Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Kim Stanley
- Minor classic, this depicts the unusual and finally tragic life of Frances Farmer, a Hollywood starlet of the 1930s.
Drifting into radical…
- Country (1984)
- Dir. Richard Pearce
Feat. Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Wilford Brimley
- Drama following a Midwestern American family during the economic hardship of the 1980's, as they struggle to hold onto their way of life.…
- Fool for Love (1985)
- Dir. Robert Altman
Feat. Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton…
- One of dir. Altman's ambitious stageplay adaptations, this largely succeeds in bringing Sam Shepard's brand of 'surreal Americana' to life.
This…
- Crimes of the Heart (1986)
- Dir. Bruce Beresford
Feat. Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange, Sissy Spacek…
- Diane Keaton, Jessica Lange and Sissy Spacek play the Magrath sisters, who reunite in their family home in Mississippi to regroup and settle their…
- Bright Angel (1991)
- Dir. Michael Fields
Feat. Dermot Mulroney, Lili Taylor, Sam Shepard…
- Sombre mid–western road movie avoids genre cliches and maintain its grip once it takes hold.
- Voyager (1991)
- Dir. Volker Schlondorff
Feat. Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy
- Based on an existentialist novel of the 1950s, Sam Shepard plays a lone, melancholy man of science who uneasily submits to the random hand of fate…
- Thunderheart (1992)
- Dir. Michael Apted
Feat. Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham (Actor) Greene…
- Part–Sioux FBI agent Val Kilmer is awakened to his heritage when assigned to investigate a murder on a reservation. An absorbing account of a…
- Silent Tongue (1993)
- Dir. Sam Shepard
Feat. Alan Bates, Richard Harris, River Phoenix
- A personal project for playwright/actor/director Shepard, this ghost story chiefly indicts the mistreatment of the native Indian. Haunting film…