Sam Shepard Movies

Savannah is the true story of Ward Allen, a romantic and bombastic character who rejects his plantation heritage for the freedom of life on a river....

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

A story about people whose lives are connected by typewriters. A meditation on creativity and technology featuring Tom Hanks, John Mayer, Sam...

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

An artist whose work involves capturing images of strangers begins to believe she herself is being observed.

A movie adaptation of the Sam Shepard play Ages Of The Moon.

Rosy-Fingered Dawn is a film on Terrence Malick. It is about the making of BADLANDS, DAYS OF HEAVEN, THE THIN RED LINE and the personal involvement...

Based on the controversial off-Broadway musical comedy revue, "Oh! Calcutta!" is a series of musical numbers about sex and sexual mores. Most of the...

A Paul Joyce documentary on the American independent film scene.

Filmed in the autumn of 1975 prior to and during Bob Dylan's Rolling Thunder Revue tour – featuring appearances and performances by Ronee...

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...

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...

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

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...

Jewell and Gil are farmers. They seem to be working against the odds, producing no financial surplus. Gil has lost hope of ever becoming prosperous,...

A look back on the weird and wasted career of the Holy Modal Rounders.

In 1910, 19-year-old Horace Robedaux, still bitter toward his stepfather, goes to Houston to be reunited with his mother, Corella, and his sister,...

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...

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

Filmed play about two very different brothers, one a criminal and the other a screen-writing family man who becomes appalled by his wayward brother's...