All movies starring Sam Shepard

Cold in July (2014) poster

Cold in July (2014) ★ 6.7

Genres: Crime Thriller
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.
The Pelican Brief (1993) poster

The Pelican Brief (1993) ★ 6.6

A law student uncovers a conspiracy, putting herself and others in danger.
The Right Stuff (1983) poster

The Right Stuff (1983) ★ 7.8

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...
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Thunderheart (1992) ★ 6.8

An FBI man with Sioux background is sent to a reservation to help with a murder investigation, where he has to come to terms with his heritage. Slowly he rejects the intimidating tactics of his fellow FBI agents, who are not so interested in solving the crime as covering up an incriminating situation with the locals, and as he becomes more tuned to his heritage, the locals begin trusting him. Based on actual Reservation occurrences of the '70s.
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Ithaca (2015) ★ 5.4

Genres: Drama War
Fourteen-year-old Homer Macauley is determined to be the best and fastest bicycle telegraph messenger anyone has ever seen. His older brother has gone to war, leaving Homer to look after his widowed mother, his older sister and his 4-year-old brother, Ulysses. And so it is that as spring turns to summer, 1942, Homer Macauley delivers messages of love, hope, pain... and death... to the good people of Ithaca. And Homer Macauley will grapple with one message that will change him forever. Based on Pulitzer Prize-winning author William Saroyan's 1943 novel, The Human Comedy, ITHACA is a coming-of-age story about the exuberance of youth, the abruptness of change, the sweetness of life, the sting of death, and the sheer goodness that lives in each and every one of us.
Baby Boom (1987) poster

Baby Boom (1987) ★ 6.2

The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) poster

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford (2007) ★ 7.5

Taking place in Missouri in the early 1880s, the film dramatizes the last seven months in the life of famed outlaw Jesse James, beginning with the Blue Cut train robbery of 1881 and culminating in his assassination at the hands of Robert Ford the following April. In the time between these two fateful events, the young and jealous Ford befriends the increasingly mistrustful outlaw, even as he plots his demise.
Safe Passage (1994) poster

Safe Passage (1994) ★ 6.3

Genres: Drama
A mother with seven sons feels like she's losing control of her life and her family. But personal pain and a troubled marriage fade into the background as news comes that one of her sons might have died in an accident.