Tag: Sam Shepard

Blackthorn (2011) 6.5

Blackthorn (2011)

Storyline: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.User ...

Raggedy Man (1981) 6.8

Raggedy Man (1981)

Storyline:It's 1944 in the small town of Gregory, Texas. Divorcée Nita Longley has been brought into the town by the telephone company to work as its switchboard operator, a job which requires her to be at the switchb...

Thunderheart (1992) 6.8

Thunderheart (1992)

Storyline: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 ag...

Charlotte’s Web (2006) 6.0

Charlotte’s Web (2006)

Storyline: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 t...

Never Here (2017) 6.2

Never Here (2017)

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

Don’t Come Knocking (2005) 6.7

Don’t Come Knocking (2005)

Storyline:Howard Spence has seen better days. Once a big Western movie star, he now drowns his disgust for his selfish and failed life with alcohol, drugs and young women. If he were to die now, nobody would shed a te...

Walker Payne (2006) 7.0

Walker Payne (2006)

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

Ithaca (2015) 5.5

Ithaca (2015)

Storyline:In a small town in California's San Joaquin Valley, 14-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, le...

Frances (1982) 7.3

Frances (1982)

Storyline:The true story of Frances Farmer's meteoric rise to fame in Hollywood and the tragic turn her life took when she was blacklisted.User Reviews:

Bright Angel (1990) 5.7

Bright Angel (1990)

Storyline:Road-movie from Montana to Wyoming. A gullible, innocent young man (Mulroney) assists a versatile girl (Taylor) on her long quest to get her brother out of jail.User Reviews:

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) 6.3

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Storyline:A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.User Reviews:

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999) 6.3

Snow Falling on Cedars (1999)

Storyline:A Japanese-American fisherman may have killed his neighbor Carl at sea. In the 1950s, race figures in the trial. So does reporter Ishmael.User Reviews:

Bandidas (2006) 5.9

Bandidas (2006)

Storyline:Set in the late 19th century. When a ruthless robber baron takes away everything they cherish, a rough-and-tumble, idealistic peasant and a sophisticated heiress embark on a quest for justice, vengeance…and ...

Purgatory (TV Movie 1999) 7

Purgatory (TV Movie 1999)

Storyline:An outlaw band flees a posse and rides into Refuge, a small town where no one carries a gun, drinks, or swears. The town is actually Purgatory, and the peaceful inhabitants are all famous dead outlaws and cr...

The Pelican Brief (1993) 6.6

The Pelican Brief (1993)

Storyline:Two Supreme Court Justices have been killed. Now a college professor, who clerked for one of the two men and who is also having an affair with one of his students, is given a brief by her that states who pro...

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

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

Storyline:Taking place in the American Northwest 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...

The Return (2006) 4.8

The Return (2006)

Storyline:The restless sales representative of a transport company Joanna Mills travels from Saint Louis to Texas in a business trip. She is haunted by violent visions and after meeting her client, she visits her lone...

Days of Heaven (1978) 7.9

Days of Heaven (1978)

Storyline:Bill and Abby, a young couple who to the outside world pretend to be brother and sister are living and working in Chicago at the beginning of the century. They want to escape the poverty and hard labor of th...

Cold in July (2014) 6.8

Cold in July (2014)

Storyline: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 th...

The Right Stuff (1983) 7.9

The Right Stuff (1983)

Storyline:Tom Wolfe's book on the history of the U.S. Space program reads like a novel, and the film has that same fictional quality. It covers the breaking of the sound barrier by Chuck Yeager to the Mercury 7 astron...