Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

November 5, 1943 · 82 years old

Samuel Shepard Rogers III (November 5, 1943 – July 27, 2017) was an American playwright, actor, director, screenwriter, and author whose career spanned half a century. He wrote 58 plays as well as several books of short stories, essays, and memoirs. He won 10 Obie Awards for writing and directing, t…

Known For

51 titles
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The Notebook

The Notebook

2004 · 2h 3m · Movie

An elderly man reads to a woman with dementia the story of two young lovers whose romance is threatened by the difference in their respective social classes.

7.8
2
Black Hawk Down

Black Hawk Down

2001 · 2h 24m · Movie

The story of one hundred and sixty elite U.S. soldiers who dropped into Mogadishu in October 1993 to capture two top lieutenants of a renegade warlord, but found themselves in a desperate battle with a large force of heavily armed...

7.7
3
Safe House

Safe House

2012 · 1h 55m · Movie

A young CIA agent is tasked with looking after a fugitive in a safe house. But when the safe house is attacked, he finds himself on the run with his charge.

6.7
4
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

2007 · 2h 40m · Movie

Robert Ford, who has idolized Jesse James since childhood, tries hard to join the resurgent gang of the Missouri outlaw, but gradually becomes resentful of the bandit leader.

7.5
5
Swordfish

Swordfish

2001 · 1h 39m · Movie

A covert counter-terrorist unit called Black Cell led by Gabriel Shear wants the money to help finance their war against international terrorism, but it's all locked away. Gabriel brings in convicted hacker Stanley Jobson to help ...

6.5
6
Mud

Mud

2013 · 2h 10m · Movie

On a Mississippi River island, two young boys encounter a stranger who tells wild tales about bounty hunters and a beautiful woman.

7.3
7
Brothers

Brothers

2009 · 1h 45m · Movie

While on tour in Afghanistan, Sam's helicopter is shot down and he is presumed dead. Back home, it is his screw-up brother who looks after the family. Sam does return, but with a lot of excess baggage.

7.1
8
Midnight Special

Midnight Special

2016 · 1h 52m · Movie

A father and son go on the run, pursued by the government and a cult drawn to the child's special powers.

6.6
9
Killing Them Softly

Killing Them Softly

2012 · 1h 37m · Movie

Jackie Cogan is an enforcer hired to restore order after three dumb guys rob a Mob protected card game, causing the local criminal economy to collapse.

6.2
10
Paris, Texas

Paris, Texas

1984 · 2h 25m · Movie

Travis Henderson, an aimless drifter who has been missing for four years, wanders out of the desert and must reconnect with society, himself, his life, and his family.

8.1
11
Out of the Furnace

Out of the Furnace

2013 · 1h 56m · Movie

A steelworker takes matters into his own hands after police fail to find his missing brother.

6.7
12
The Pelican Brief

The Pelican Brief

1993 · 2h 21m · Movie

A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.

6.6
13
August: Osage County

August: Osage County

2013 · 2h 1m · Movie

A look at the lives of the strong-willed women of the Weston family, whose paths have diverged until a family crisis brings them back to the Oklahoma house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.

7.2
14
Felon

Felon

2008 · 1h 44m · Movie

Locked up for killing an intruder in self-defense, a family man must cope with life in the violent penal system.

7.4
15
The Pledge

The Pledge

2001 · 2h 4m · Movie

A retiring police detective pledges to catch the killer of a young child.

6.7
16
Steel Magnolias

Steel Magnolias

1989 · 1h 57m · Movie

A young beautician, newly arrived in a small Louisiana town, finds work at the local salon, where a small group of women share a close bond of friendship, and welcome her into the fold.

7.3
17
Days of Heaven

Days of Heaven

1978 · 1h 34m · Movie

A hot-tempered farm laborer convinces the woman he loves to marry their rich but dying boss so that they can have a claim to his fortune.

7.7
18
The Right Stuff

The Right Stuff

1983 · 3h 13m · Movie

The U.S. space program's development from the breaking of the sound barrier to selection of the Mercury 7 astronauts, from a group of test pilots with a more seat-of-the-pants approach than the program's more cautious engineers pr...

7.8
19
Stealth

Stealth

2005 · 2h 1m · Movie

Deeply ensconced in a top-secret military program, three pilots struggle to bring an artificial intelligence program under control before it initiates the next world war.

5.1
20
Fair Game

Fair Game

2010 · 1h 48m · Movie

CIA operative Valerie Plame discovers her identity is allegedly leaked by the government as payback for an op-ed article her husband wrote criticizing the Bush administration.

6.8
21
Charlotte's Web

Charlotte's Web

2006 · 1h 37m · Movie

Wilbur the pig is scared of the end of the season, because he knows that come that time, he will end up on the dinner table. He hatches a plan with Charlotte, a spider that lives in his pen, to ensure that this will never happen.

6.3
22
Cold in July

Cold in July

2014 · 1h 49m · Movie

When a protective father meets a murderous ex-con, both need to deviate from the path they are on as they soon find themselves entangled in a downwards spiral of lies and violence while having to confront their own inner psyche.

6.7
23
Bandidas

Bandidas

2006 · 1h 33m · Movie

In turn-of-the-century Mexico, two very different women become a bank-robbing duo in an effort to combat a ruthless enforcer terrorizing their town.

5.7
24
Rolling Thunder Revue

Rolling Thunder Revue

2019 · 2h 22m · Movie

In an alchemic mix of fact and fantasy, Martin Scorsese looks back at Bob Dylan's 1975 Rolling Thunder Revue tour and a country ripe for reinvention.

7.8
25
The Accidental Husband

The Accidental Husband

2008 · 1h 30m · Movie

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.

5.6
26
Baby Boom

Baby Boom

1987 · 1h 50m · Movie

The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.

6.3
27
Thunderheart

Thunderheart

1992 · 1h 59m · Movie

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.

6.8
28
Zabriskie Point

Zabriskie Point

1970 · 1h 53m · Movie

At a time of chronic civil unrest in late 1960s America, a young revolutionary suspected of murder steals a plane and meets a girl.

6.9
29
All the Pretty Horses

All the Pretty Horses

2000 · 1h 56m · Movie

Two Texas cowboys head to Mexico in search of work, but soon find themselves in trouble with the law after one of them falls in love with a wealthy rancher's daughter.

5.8
30
The Return

The Return

2006 · 1h 25m · Movie

Joanna Mills, a traveling business woman, begins having nightmares of a murder that occurred 15 years ago. Soon she is drawn to an old farmhouse, where the murder took place.

4.7
31
Blackthorn

Blackthorn

2011 · 1h 42m · Movie

In Bolivia, Butch Cassidy (now calling himself James Blackthorn) pines for one last sight of home, an adventure that aligns him with a young robber and makes the duo a target for gangs and lawmen alike.

6.5
32
Don't Come Knocking

Don't Come Knocking

2005 · 2h 2m · Movie

An aging cowboy movie star deserts a film set and tries to reconnect with his mother, whom he hasn't seen in thirty years, only to learn that he has a child he never knew about.

6.6
33
Inhale

Inhale

2010 · 1h 23m · Movie

A couple goes to dangerous lengths to find a lung donor for their daughter.

6.5
34
Blind Horizon

Blind Horizon

2003 · 1h 39m · Movie

At the hospital, Frank comes out of a coma with amnesia. The sheriff wants to know who shot him. Later Frank remembers that something's happening to the president. Who is Frank?

5.5
35
In Dubious Battle

In Dubious Battle

2016 · 1h 50m · Movie

An activist gets caught up in the labor movement for farm workers in California during the 1930s.

6.0
36
Crimes of the Heart

Crimes of the Heart

1986 · 1h 45m · Movie

Three southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.

6.3