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Sam Shepard

Sam Shepard

American playwright and actor (1943-2017)
November 5, 1943 (July 27, 2017)
U.S. 2013. Dramatic comedy by John Wells with Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, Julianne Nicholson. Gathered in the family home for the funeral of their father, a poet, three sisters with conflicting personalities try to calm their mother's anger.
Runtime: 119 min.
U.S. 2013. Thriller by Scott Cooper with Christian Bale, Casey Affleck, Woody Harrelson. Upon learning that his debt-ridden brother has been killed after participating in a fistfight, a labourer sets out to find the murderer, a psychopathic drug manufacturer.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 2013. Thriller by Jim Mickle with Michael C. Hall, Sam Shepard, Vinessa Shaw. After shooting a burglar, an unremarkable man must confront the burglar's father, a hardened criminal recently let out on parole.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 2012. Thriller by Daniel Espinosa with Ryan Reynolds, Denzel Washington, Vera Farmiga. In Cape Town, a young C.I.A. agent becomes a fugitive in the company of a dangerous spy who has a compromising file for the intelligence agency.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 2012. Mores drama by Andrew Dominik with Brad Pitt, Scoot McNairy, Ben Mendelsohn. A professional killer arrives in New Orleans to settle the score with the perpetrators of a heist that took place in an underground gambling hall under Mafia jurisdiction.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2012. Drama by Jeff Nichols with Tye Sheridan, Matthew McConaughey, Jacob Lofland. Two teenagers help a fugitive repair a boat perched in a tree so that he can then set sail with his girlfriend.
Runtime: 130 min.
U.S. 2012. Biography by Annette Haywood-Carter with Jim Caviezel, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Jaimie Alexander. In 1920s Georgia, a man who makes a living hunting ducks sees his way of life threatened by the change and modernization of society.
Runtime: 110 min.
Esp. 2011. Western by Mateo Gil with Sam Shepard, Eduardo Noriega, Stephen Rea. A refugee in Bolivia for twenty years, the American ex-outlaw Butch Cassidy sees his plans to return home compromised by his meeting with a Spanish engineer on the run.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 2011. Dramatic comedy by Lawrence Kasdan with Diane Keaton, Kevin Kline, Dianne Wiest. A middle-aged woman goes in search of her dog lost by her husband during a walk in the Rockies.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 2010. Political drama by Doug Liman with Naomi Watts, Sean Penn, Michael Kelly. In 2003, a media leak revealed to the world the true identity of a covert CIA operative, destroying her career and that of her husband.
Runtime: 107 min.
U.S. 2010. Drama by Baltasar Kormákur with Dermot Mulroney, Diane Kruger, Sam Shepard. The harrowing experiences of a New Mexico district attourney who crosses the border to find the two lungs his dying daughter needs from organ traffickers.
Runtime: 86 min.
U.S. 2009. Psychological drama by Jim Sheridan with Jake Gyllenhaal, Natalie Portman, Tobey Maguire. Upon his return from Afghanistan, where he had been declared dead, a captain in the Marines channels the terrible truth of his survival into a jealous rage against his wife and brother.
Runtime: 105 min.
U.S. 2007. Sports drama by Yves Simoneau with Sam Shepard, Frank Whaley, Nicholas Pryor. The exploits of a thoroughbred filly who dominated the racetracks in the early 1970s.
U.S. 2007. Western by Andrew Dominik with Casey Affleck, Brad Pitt, Sam Rockwell. In 1881, a young admirer of the famous Jesse James joins his band of outlaws before betraying him.
Runtime: 160 min.
U.S. 2006. Thriller by Asif Kapadia with Sarah Michelle Gellar, Peter O'Brien, Sam Shepard. A traveling saleswoman returns to her childhood home to unravel the mystery surrounding her strange and terrifying visions.
Runtime: 85 min.
U.S. 2006. Fantasy comedy by Gary Winick with Dakota Fanning, Kevin Anderson, Essie Davis. A little girl and a clever spider work together to save a piglet from being turned into bacon.
Runtime: 97 min.
U.S. 2005. Thriller by Rob Cohen with Josh Lucas, Jessica Biel, Jamie Foxx. Three US Navy pilots must neutralize a stealth aircraft equipped with artificial intelligence, which has become uncontrollable following a breakdown.
Runtime: 121 min.
All. 2005. Dramatic comedy by Wim Wenders with Sam Shepard, Sarah Polley, Gabriel Mann. A sixty-year-old western actor goes in search of the son he had with a waitress thirty years earlier.
Runtime: 124 min.
Fr. 2005. Western by Joachim Roenning, Espen Sandberg with Penélope Cruz, Salma Hayek, Steve Zahn. In 19th century Mexico, two bank robbers try to prevent an American railroad company from expropriating peasants.
Runtime: 92 min.
U.S. 2004. Thriller by Michael Haussman with Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell, Sam Shepard. In New Mexico, a man suffering from amnesia discovers that he may have been involved in a murderous plot.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2004. Sentimental drama by Nick Cassavetes with Ryan Gosling, Rachel McAdams, James Garner. To entertain an elderly woman who is no longer in her right mind, an old man reads her an old love story between a worker and a young bourgeois woman.
Runtime: 124 min.
U.S. 2001. Thriller by Dominic Sena with John Travolta, Hugh Jackman, Halle Berry. A young computer hacker gets himself tangled up in a dangerous scam run by a megalomaniac criminal.
Runtime: 99 min.
U.S. 2001. War drama by Ridley Scott with Josh Hartnett, Ewan McGregor, Tom Sizemore. In 1993, during the civil war in Somalia, American soldiers conducted a raid with disastrous consequences.
Runtime: 143 min.
U.S. 2001. Drama by Agnieszka Holland with Sam Shepard, Elias Koteas, Giovanni Ribisi. A murderer on death row refuses to fight his sentence, despite pressure from his family.
Runtime: 98 min.
Can. 2001. Mores drama by Jeremy Podeswa with Sam Shepard, Alberta Watson, Nadia Litz. A dark secret haunts the family of a farmer who supports his own in the face of severe austerity.
U.S. 2000. Court drama by Christopher Menaul with Anne Heche, Sam Shepard, Eric Stoltz. The trial of a female Navy captain who shot her ex-lover, a senior officer, in alleged self-defense.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1999. Biography by Kathy Bates with Sam Shepard, Judy Davis, Bebe Neuwirth. The ups and downs of the love affair between the novelist Dashiell Hammett and the playwright Lillian Hellman.
Runtime: 100 min.
U.S. 1999. Western by Uli Edel with Sam Shepard, Eric Roberts, Peter Stormare. Fugitive outlaws find refuge in a strange village that harbours a terrifying secret.
Runtime: 94 min.
U.S. 1997. Sentimental drama by Peter Masterson with Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Diane Lane.
Runtime: 108 min.
Runtime: 98 min.
U.S. 1995. Western by Joseph Sargent with James Garner, Sissy Spacek, Sam Shepard.
U.S. 1994. Psychological drama by J. Michael McClary with James Woods, Kathy Bates, Henry Thomas.
Runtime: 96 min.
U.S. 1993. Thriller by Alan J. Pakula with Julia Roberts, Denzel Washington, Sam Shepard. A law student becomes the target of assassins after writing a paper on the mysterious murder of two Supreme Court justices.
Runtime: 141 min.
U.S. 1992. Western by Sam Shepard with Alan Bates, Richard Harris, Dermot Mulroney. A father decides to buy the sister of his son's deceased Indian wife in the hope of freeing him from his hallucinatory delusions.
Runtime: 102 min.
U.S. 1992. Crime drama by Michael Apted with Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene. A young FBI agent is sent to a Native American reservation in Dakota to solve a murder.
Runtime: 118 min.
U.S. 1991. Crime drama by Martin Campbell with Barbara Hershey, Sam Shepard, Mary Beth Hurt. A young lawyer suspected of murdering one of her clients conducts her own investigation.
Runtime: 104 min.

The Voyager

V.O.: Homo Faber
All. 1991. Melodrama by Volker Schlöndorff with Sam Shepard, Julie Delpy, Barbara Sukowa. During a stay in Europe, an American engineer falls in love with a young woman whom he learns is the daughter of a friend from school.
Runtime: 117 min.
U.S. 1990. Drama by Michael Fields with Dermot Mulroney, Lily Taylor, Sam Shepard. A teenager from Montana agrees to drive a young Canadian girl to Wyoming whose brother is imprisoned in that state.
Runtime: 93 min.
U.S. 1989. Dramatic comedy by Herbert Ross with Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine. In a small town, a group of friends meet regularly at one of their hairdresser's salon to talk and share confidences.
Runtime: 115 min.
U.S. 1988. Psychological drama by Sam Shepard with Jessica Lange, Charles Durning, Tess Harper. After an accident, a farmer asks his daughter who has come all the way from New York to avenge him by killing his horse.
Runtime: 90 min.
U.S. 1987. Mores comedy by Charles Shyer with Diane Keaton, Sam Shepard, Sam Wanamaker. A businessperson's life is turned upside down when she decides to take care of the daughter of a cousin who recently died.
Runtime: 111 min.
U.S. 1985. Mores drama by Robert Altman with Sam Shepard, Kim Basinger, Harry Dean Stanton. A cowboy encounters a motel manager with whom he had a passionate affair some time before.
Runtime: 106 min.
All. 1984. Drama by Wim Wenders with Harry Dean Stanton, Hunter Carson, Nastassja Kinski. After wandering for a long time, a man regains the affection of his young son, raised by his brother, and then sets out to find his wife.
Runtime: 145 min.
U.S. 1984. Social drama by Richard Pearce with Jessica Lange, Sam Shepard, Matt Clark. A couple of Iowa farmers face financial difficulties.
Runtime: 109 min.
U.S. 1983. Historic chronicle by Philip Kaufman with Sam Shepard, Scott Glenn, Ed Harris. The accomplishments of American test pilots and early astronauts who helped conquer space.
Runtime: 191 min.
U.S. 1982. Biography by Graeme Clifford with Jessica Lange, Kim Stanley, Sam Shepard. The career and sad fate of actress Frances Farmer.
Runtime: 140 min.
U.S. 1980. Fantasy by Daniel Petrie with Ellen Burstyn, Sam Shepard, Roberts Blossom.
Runtime: 103 min.
U.S. 1978. Mores drama by Terrence Malick with Richard Gere, Brooke Adams, Linda Manz.
Runtime: 95 min.
U.S. 1970. Psychological drama by Michelangelo Antonioni with Mark Frechette, Daria Halprin, Rod Taylor. After a protest demonstration, a student flees to the desert and spends some time there with a friend he just met.
Runtime: 113 min.

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