Story Line
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 walked out on his family and disappeared four years earlier.
“A place for dreams. A place for heartbreak. A place to pick up the pieces.”
Top Cast
Harry Dean Stanton
Travis
Nastassja Kinski
Jane
Dean Stockwell
Walt
Hunter Carson
Hunter
Aurore Clément
Anne
Bernhard Wicki
Doctor Ulmer
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Rating
8.1/ 10
Release Date
1984-07-16
Runtime
2h 25m
Genres
Drama
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CinemaSerf
7/10
•7/31/2022Harry Dean Stanton is on cracking form here the amnesiac "Travis". He turns up in a Texan clinic dressed in a striped suit, but recalling little for the slightly roguish doctor who helps him after some dehydrating time in the desert to use to help id...
Filipe Manuel Neto
7/10
•3/12/2024**A film full of qualities, but which will not please the general public.**
There are films that are made for commercial audiences and others that are clearly made to please specialized critics and film theorists. Although this film was present on...
Axel
6/10
•6/12/2025I discovered Paris, Texas through Letterboxd's Top 250 Films with Most Fans, having never heard of it before. The 8.1 IMDB rating caught my attention, so I decided to give this acclaimed film a shot.
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The film starts genuinely intrig...
Wuchak
4/10
•11/8/2025**_Artsy but tedious road flick in the Southwest_**
Written by Sam Shepard and shot in late 1983, this meshes elements of Coppola’s “The Rain People” with Paul Schrader’s “Hardcore” and a little “The Last Picture Show.” While it generally failed a...