Screenplay: Sam Shepard

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Harry Dean Stanton · Nastassja Kinski · Dean Stockwell · Aurore Clément

Plot A man wanders out of the desert not knowing who he is. His brother finds him, and helps to pull his memory back of the life he led before he...

Direction Michelangelo Antonioni

Cast Mark Frechette · Daria Halprin · Rod Taylor · Paul Fix

Plot An epic portrait of late Sixties America, as seen through the portrayal of two of its children: anthropology student Daria (who's helping a property developer build a village in the...

Direction Wim Wenders

Cast Sam Shepard · Jessica Lange · Tim Roth · Sarah Polley

Plot Howard Spence (Sam Shepard) has seen better days. When he was younger he was a movie star, mostly in Westerns. At the age of sixty, Howard uses drugs, alcohol and...

Direction Robert Altman

Cast Sam Shepard · Kim Basinger · Randy Quaid · Harry Dean Stanton

Plot May is waiting for her boyfriend in a run-down American motel, when an old flame turns up and threatens to undermine her efforts and drag her back into the life...

Direction Sam Shepard

Cast Jessica Lange · Charles Durning · Tess Harper · Donald Moffat

Plot Unmarried New Yorker Kate Bertram (Jessica Lange) visits her Minnesota womenfolk and her father, who wants her to kill a horse.

Direction Sam Shepard

Cast Richard Harris · Sheila Tousey · Alan Bates · River Phoenix

Plot River Phoenix becomes mentally unhinged when his Native American bride dies in childbirth. This sends his father, Richard Harris, on a journey to try and find another woman for his...

Direction Matthew Warchus

Cast Nick Nolte · Jeff Bridges · Sharon Stone · Catherine Keener

Direction Graeme Clifford

Cast Aidan Quinn · Marcia Gay Harden · Will Estes · Stephen Jared

Plot Aidan Quinn, Marcia Gay Harden and Will Estes star in this movie based on autobiographical short stories from the books Cruising Paradise and Motel Chronicles by Pulitzer Prize-winner Sam Shepard....

Direction Robert Frank

Cast Julius Orlovsky · Peter Orlovsky · John Coe · Allen Ginsberg

Plot Julius Orlovsky, after spending years in a New York mental hospital, emerges catatonic and must rely on his brother Peter, who lives with poet Allen Ginsberg. When Julius wanders off...

Direction David Horn

Cast Taissa Farmiga · Ed Harris · Amy Madigan · Larry Pine

Plot Live theatrical production of Sam Shepard's play about a grandson who brings his girlfriend home to meet his family and uncovers the destructive nature of dark family secrets.

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Joseph Chaikin

Plot Monologue written by Sam Shepard and played by Joseph Chaikin with musical accompaniment and an expressive editing by Shirley Clarke.

Direction Gary Halvorson

Cast Bruce Willis · Chad Smith · Andrew Alburger · Danielle Kennedy

Plot Filmed play about two very different brothers, one a criminal and the other a screen-writing family man who becomes appalled by his wayward brother's relationship with a producer.

Direction Shirley Clarke

Cast Joseph Chaikin

Plot A theatrical monologue of a dying man delivering his last rites, while Clarke employs a series of digital manipulations to enhance the discourse.