Sam Shepard films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 27 films on Boxlist

Known for The Right Stuff, Days of Heaven and Black Hawk Down.

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Starring Sam Shepard

The Right Stuff
1983 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A chronicle of the original Mercury astronauts in the formation of America's space program: Alan Shepherd, the first American in space; Gus Grissom, the benighted astronaut for whom nothing works out as planned; John Glenn, the...
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Days of Heaven
1978 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a...
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Black Hawk Down
2001 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
When U.S. Rangers and an elite Delta Force team attempt to kidnap two underlings of a Somali warlord, their Black Hawk helicopters are shot down, and the Americans suffer heavy casualties, facing intense fighting from the militia on the...
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Mud
2013 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Two boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and form a pact to help him reunite with his lover and escape.
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Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
2019 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Part documentary, part concert film, part fever dream, this film captures the troubled spirit of America in 1975 and the joyous music that Dylan performed during the fall of that year.
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The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
2007 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Outlaw Jesse James is rumored to be the 'fastest gun in the West'. An eager recruit into James' notorious gang, Robert Ford eventually grows jealous of the famed outlaw and, when Robert and his brother sense an opportunity to kill James...
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Steel Magnolias
1989 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
This heart wrenching drama is about a beauty shop, in Louisana owned by Truvy, and the tragedies of all of her clients.
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The Notebook
2004 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
An epic love story centered around an older man who reads aloud to a woman with Alzheimer's. From a faded notebook, the old man's words bring to life the story about a couple who is separated by World War II, and is then passionately...
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Cold in July
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
While investigating noises in his house one balmy Texas night in 1989, Richard Dane puts a bullet in the brain of a low-life burglar. Although he’s hailed as a small-town hero, Dane soon finds himself fearing for his family’s safety when...
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Brothers
2009 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When his helicopter goes down during his fourth tour of duty in Afghanistan, Marine Sam Cahill is presumed dead. Back home, brother Tommy steps in to look over Sam’s wife, Grace, and two children. Sam’s surprise homecoming triggers...
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Midnight Special
2016 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers.
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The Pledge
2001 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A police chief about to retire pledges to help a woman find her daughter's killer.
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Thunderheart
1992 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
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.
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Fair Game
2010 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Wife and mother Valerie Plame has a double life as a CIA operative, hiding her vocation from family and friends. Her husband, Joseph Wilson, writes a controversial article in The New York Times, refuting stories about the sale of enriched...
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August: Osage County
2013 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
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 Midwest house they grew up in, and to the dysfunctional woman who raised them.
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Killing Them Softly
2012 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
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.
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Felon
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
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The Pelican Brief
1993 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Two Supreme Court Justices have been assassinated. One lone law student has stumbled upon the truth. An investigative journalist wants her story. Everybody else wants her dead.
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Out of the Furnace
2013 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Two brothers live in the economically-depressed Rust Belt, when a cruel twist of fate lands one in prison. His brother is then lured into one of the most violent crime rings in the Northeast.
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Baby Boom
1987 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
The life of super-yuppie J.C. is thrown into turmoil when she inherits a baby from a distant relative.
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Safe House
2012 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
A dangerous CIA renegade resurfaces after a decade on the run. When the safe house he's remanded to is attacked by mercenaries, a rookie operative escapes with him. Now, the unlikely allies must stay alive long enough to uncover who wants...
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Bandidas
2006 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
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 a few good heists.
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Swordfish
2001 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Rogue agent Gabriel Shear is determined to get his mitts on $9 billion stashed in a secret Drug Enforcement Administration account. He wants the cash to fight terrorism, but lacks the computer skills necessary to hack into the government...
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In Dubious Battle
2017 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
In the California apple country, 900 migratory workers rise 'in dubious battle' against the landowners. The group takes on a life of its own—stronger than its individual members, and more frightening. Led by the doomed Jim Nolan, the...
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The Return
2006 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Joanna Mills has a successful career but feels her personal life is spinning out of control. She has few friends, an estranged father, and a crazy ex-boyfriend who is stalking her. Joanna begins having terrifying visions of a woman's...
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Stealth
2005 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
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.
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The Accidental Husband
2008 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
When radio love guru Dr. Emma Lloyd convinces Patrick Sullivan's fiancée to dump him the week before their wedding. He sets about teaching her a lesson for interfering in other peoples lives that she knows nothing about. Things take a turn...
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