Jeff Nichols

Train Dreams (2025)

A logger leads a life of quiet grace as he experiences love and loss during an era of monumental change in early 20th-century America. ...

Eric LaRue (2025)

Janice is struggling; she moves through life as if in a haze, unable to let go of her anger and frustration. While her husband has found refuge at a new church, Janice finds it hard to seek solace in her faith despite her pastor's pleas to heal her wounds ...

A Texas Mermaid Movie (2024)

Eleven-year-old Katie and her dad reconnect after many years apart, with the help of a mermaid they meet in the San Marcos River. A Texas Mermaid Movie is a look at processing loss and change through creative play. ...

The Bikeriders (2024)

After a chance encounter, headstrong Kathy is drawn to Benny, member of Midwestern motorcycle club the Vandals. As the club transforms into a dangerous underworld of violence, Benny must choose between Kathy and his loyalty to the club. ...

Alien Nation (2022)

A remake off the 1988 science fiction thriller. An alien race arrives on Earth and tries to co-exist with humans, despite the restrictions that have been placed on them to live in segregation. ...

Yankee Comandante (2021)

Long Way Back Home (2018)

A man returns to his hometown of Memphis looking for his brothers, who are in trouble with the law. Inspired by the song "Long Way Back Home" by Lucero. ...

Loving (2016)

In 1958, in the state of Virginia, the idea of interracial marriage was not only considered to be immoral to many, it was also illegal. When Richard and Mildred fall in love, they are aware of the eyes staring at them and the words said behind their backs. ...

In the Radiant City (2016)

A man must return home to rural Kentucky where he and his family, fragmented and haunted, still carry the stigma of a murder his brother committed 20 years ago. ...

Midnight Special (2016)

A father and son go on the run after the dad learns his child possesses special powers. ...

Hellion (2014)

When motocross and heavy metal obsessed, 13-year-old Jacob's delinquent behavior forces CPS to place his little brother Wes with his aunt, Jacob and his emotionally absent father must finally take responsibility for their actions and each other in order to ...

Making a Scene (2013)

For this year's Movies Issue, The New York Times Magazine commissioned lines from an eclectic and talented group of screenwriters — writers responsible for some of the best scripts of 2013. We asked them each to write a single line for us — not a scene ...

Mud (2013)

Two teenage boys find a fugitive hiding out on an island in the Mississippi River and help him reunite with his lover and escape an avenging family and their armed posse. ...

Take Shelter (2011)

Plagued by a series of apocalyptic visions, a young husband and father questions whether to shelter his family from a coming storm, or from himself. ...

Shotgun Stories (2007)

Shotgun Stories tracks a feud that erupts between two sets of half brothers following the death of their father. Set against the cotton fields and back roads of Southeast Arkansas, these brothers discover the lengths to which each will go to protect their ...

Be Here to Love Me (2004)

Chronicles the fascinating and often turbulent life of Townes Van Zandt. ...

Noble Chrome Pirates (2001)

Short student thesis film about a car mechanic who must choose between love and his dreams of drag racing success. ...

Martin Scorsese Presents Jeff Nichols (2019)

A conversation between Martin Scorsese and Jeff Nichols. ...

Come Early Morning (2006)

A thirty-something southern woman searches for love, despite the burdens she carries with her. ...