Kris Kristofferson Filmography

Snow Buddies

Actors: Jimmy Bennett, Dominic Scott Kay, Josh Flitter

Synopsis: The Air Bud saga continues with this, the seventh installment in the Disney series. This time around, the cute and cuddly puppies from Air Buddies find themselves in the icy terrain of Alaska, where they'll meet some new friends, compete in a sled race, and try to find their way home. Richard Karn Read More

Jump Out Boys

Actors: DMX, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: DMX and Kris Kristofferson star as two men who share a similar goal despite operating on opposite sides of the law in this action thriller set in post-Hurricane Katrina New Orleans and centering on the search for a dangerous Mexican drug lord. New Orleans is in the cold grip of chaos, providing Read More

I'm Not There

Actors: Christian Bale, Cate Blanchett, Marcus Carl Franklin, Richard Gere

Synopsis: Director Todd Haynes's unconventional biopic of the legendary singer/songwriter Bob Dylan features different actors playing the part of the Minnesota native at various stages of his remarkable career. Among the actors playing the singer are Cate Blanchett, who portrays the man during his Don't Read More

The Wendell Baker Story

Actors: Luke Wilson, Owen Wilson, Kris Kristofferson, Eva Mendes, Seymour Cassel

Synopsis: Owen, Luke, and Andrew Wilson combine their fraternal filmmaking talents to tell the character-driven tale of a small-time con man who gets a fortuitous shot at redemption while working in a run down retirement community. Wendell Baker (Luke Wilson) is a con man whose large heart betrays his Read More

The Best of the Johnny Cash TV Show, 1969-1971

Actors: Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: The Best of the Johnny Cash Show captures a number of memorable performances from the variety show hosted by the country music legend. This collection includes performances by Bob Dylan, Roy Orbison, Neil Young, Ray Charles, Pete Seeger, and Creedence Clearwater Revival. ~ Perry Seibert, All Movie Read More

Fast Food Nation

Actors: Patricia Arquette, Bobby Cannavale, Paul Dano, Luis Guzman, Ethan Hawke, Ashley Johnson, Greg Kinnear, Kris Kristofferson, Avril Lavigne, Esai Morales, Catalina Sandino Moreno, Lou Taylor Pucci, Ana Claudia Talancón, Wilmer Valderrama

Synopsis: Inspired by author Eric Schlosser's New York Times best-seller of the same name, director Richard Linklater's ensemble drama examines the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food and features an all-star cast that includes Greg Kinnear, Ethan Hawke, Kris Kristofferson Read More

Room 10

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, Kris Kristofferson

Disappearances

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Lothaire Bluteau, Gary Farmer, William Sanderson, Charlie McDermott

Synopsis: Longtime actor/songwriter Kris Kristofferson stars as a whiskey-smuggling schemer desperate to preserve his endangered cattle herd in director Jay Craven's adaptation of Howard Frank Mosher's best-selling novel. The year is 1932; Prohibition is still in place, and smuggling whiskey has long been a Read More

Requiem for Billy the Kid

Actors: Rudolph Wurlitzer, Kris Kristofferson, Tom Sullivan, Steve Sederwall

Synopsis: Director Anne Feinsilber offers an impressionistic look at the life, legend and lasting influence of a legendary outlaw in this documentary. Born William Henry McCarty and later known as William H. Bonney, Billy the Kid was a petty thief who later joined up with a gang of outlaws and horse Read More

Be Here to Love Me: A Film About Townes Van Zandt

Synopsis: The celebrated singer and songwriter Steve Earle once said "Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world, and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." Earle was hardly the only artist of note who loved Van Zandt's poetic, elliptical songs of love and Read More

Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story

Actors: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue, Kris Kristofferson, Oded Fehr

Synopsis: A man and his young daughter face almost impossible odds as they struggle to help an injured horse return to the racetrack in this family-friendly drama. Ben Crane (Kurt Russell) is a horse trainer whose career has gone into a bit of a slump, and after years as his own boss, he's signed on to work Read More

The Jacket

Actors: Adrien Brody, Keira Knightley, Kris Kristofferson, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Synopsis: A troubled war veteran tries to unlock his memories of a terrible crime in this stylish thriller, the first American project for British filmmaker John Maybury. In 1991, Jack Starks (Adrien Brody) was an American soldier serving in the Persian Gulf when he was shot in the head; pronounced dead by Read More

Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin'

Synopsis: The man they call "The Red-Headed Stranger", Willie Nelson performs his several songs along with an eclectic lineup of musical guests in this concert release from Universal Music. Willie Nelson and Friends: Live and Kickin' features "Homeward Bound" with Paul Simon, "Me and Bobby McGee" with Read More

The Life and Hard Times of Guy Terrifico

Actors: Matt Murphy, Kris Kristofferson, Phil Kaufman, Natalie Radford, Donnie Fritts

Synopsis: Country music greats Kris Kristofferson, Merle Haggard, Ronnie Hawkins, and Donnie Fritts all gather to remember the bumbling semi-legend who put a small dent in the charts before suffering an untimely death in this musical mockumentary from director Michael Mabbott. He was the would-be outlaw of Read More

John Ford Goes to War

Synopsis: In this documentary centered on legendary filmmaker John Ford's cinematic contributions to Allied morale during World War II, actor/musician Kris Kristofferson narrates as the How Green Was My Valley director turns his back on Tinseltown in order to fulfill his patriotic duty. By the time the Read More

Brats: Our Journey Home

Actors: General H. Norman Schwarzkopf, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Novelist Pat Conroy, whose father was a career officer in the Marine Corps, once wrote "Military brats, my lost tribe, spent their entire youth in service to this country, and no one even knew we were there." Children raised by parents who were longtime members of America's armed services Read More

Blade: Trinity

Actors: Steve Braun, Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Jessica Biel, Ryan Reynolds, Parker Posey

Synopsis: Wesley Snipes returns as legendary vampire hunter Blade in this, the third film inspired by the popular Marvel Comics character. A fearless warrior immune to vampires, Blade (Snipes) has become a hated enemy of the bloodsucking community, and as they gather in their desert compound, a group of Read More

Final Cut: The Making and Unmaking of Heaven's Gate

Synopsis: In 1979, Michael Cimino went from being a director with one obscure Clint Eastwood action film and a handful of television commercials to his credit to one of the hottest talents in Hollywood, all on the strength of one film, The Deer Hunter. A multiple Oscar winner, a box-office success, and a Read More

Silver City

Actors: Danny Huston, Maria Bello, Billy Zane, Chris Cooper, Richard Dreyfuss, Daryl Hannah, Kris Kristofferson, Mary Kay Place, Miguel Ferrer, Thora Birch

Synopsis: Celebrated writer and director John Sayles turns his eye to politics in America in this drama. The son of respected Colorado politician Senator Jud Pilager (Michael Murphy), Dicky Pilager (Chris Cooper) is a charming but half-bright man with a bad habit of mangling the English language and a Read More

Kris Kristofferson: Breakthrough

Synopsis: In this documentary companion to Oh Boy Records' reissues of actor/singer/songwriter Kris Kristofferson's albums {^Third World Warrior} and {^Repossessed}, the musical stalwart focuses his attentions on human rights issues. Featuring clips of Kristofferson's band The Borderlords inter-cut with Read More

Soundstage: 30 Odd Foot of Grunts & Kris Kristofferson

Actors: 30 Odd Foot of Grunts, Kris Kristofferson

The Lives of the Saints

Actors: Sophia Loren, Sabrina Ferilli, Fabrizio Filippo, Jessica Paré, Nick Mancuso, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: A young boy's innocence is shattered when his mother enters into an elicit affair with a mysterious blue-eyed stranger in a two-part, four hour miniseries directed by Jerry Ciccoritti and starring Academy Award-winner Sophia Loren. Vittorio Innocente is a typical young boy from the tiny Italian Read More

Where the Red Fern Grows

Actors: Ned Beatty, Dabney Coleman, Kris Kristofferson, Dave Matthews, Joseph Ashton

Synopsis: Based on the 1961 children's novel by Wilson Rawls, Where the Red Fern Grows is a family-oriented drama four years in the making. This project is co-directed by Lyman Dayton, who also adapted the screenplay and produced the 1974 filmed version. The story involves 12-year-old Billy Coleman (Joseph Ashton Read More

Easy Riders, Raging Bulls

Actors: Dede Allen, Peter Bart, Andrew Cohen, Tony Bill, Karen Black

Synopsis: Based upon Peter Biskind's book of the same name, this BBC-produced documentary traces the rise of a generation of Hollywood filmmakers who briefly changed the face of movies with a more personal approach that pushed the boundaries of what was acceptable onscreen. Influenced by such European Read More

Chelsea Walls

Actors: Kevin Corrigan, Rosario Dawson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Kris Kristofferson, Robert Sean Leonard

Synopsis: Actor Ethan Hawke takes the director's chair for a test drive with this independent feature, based on a play by Nicole Burdette, in which a number of creative types living in New York's famed bohemian enclave the Chelsea Hotel struggle with their muses as well as their personal concerns. Read More

Blade II

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Kris Kristofferson, Ron Perlman, Leonor Varela

Synopsis: Four years after scoring a box-office touchdown with Blade (1998), actor Wesley Snipes returns to portray the Marvel Comics character again in this sequel that teams him with Mexican horror director Guillermo del Toro. A half-vampire, half-human hybrid, Blade (Snipes) is a merciless vampire hunter Read More

Planet of the Apes

Actors: Mark Wahlberg, Tim Roth, Helena Bonham Carter, Michael Clarke Duncan, Kris Kristofferson, Estella Warren, Paul Giamatti, Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa

Synopsis: This big budget "re-imagining" of the 1968 original departs somewhat from both that classic science fiction film and the source novel by author Pierre Boulle. Mark Wahlberg stars as Leo Davidson, an astronaut of the early 21st century whose unauthorized mission to rescue a chimp companion from a Read More

American Roots Music, Episode 1: When First Unto This Country

Synopsis: When First Unto This Country narrates the origins of American roots music and follows its development through the 1920s. When Africans and Europeans founded the new world in the 17th century, each ethnic group brought its unique musical heritage to the new world. It was the combination of these Read More

Wooly Boys

Actors: Joseph Mazzello, Keith Carradine, Peter Fonda, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: A spoiled city kid learns the importance of family when his ailing grandfather arrives in Minneapolis for medical treatment in director Leszek Burzynski's affecting and affectionate comedy. Young Charles (Joseph Mazzello) has never been close to his grandfather Stoney (Peter Fonda), but when Read More

Ralph Emery & Friends

American Roots Music, Episode 4: All My Children of the Sun

Synopsis: All My Children of the Sun narrates the recognition and growth of Cajun, zydeco, Tejano, and Native American music from the 1960s to the present. Inspired by a warm reception at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, Dewey Balfa returned to Louisiana determined to revitalize Cajun music. The steady Read More

American Roots Music, Episode 3: The Times They are A-Changin'

Synopsis: The Times, They Are A-Changing follows the development of roots music during the '50s and '60s. During the late '50s, a folk revival swept the United States. Rooted in the work of folklorists and musicians from the '30s and '40s, the revival spread to mainstream America when the Kingston Trio Read More

American Roots Music, Episode 2: This Land was Made for You and Me

Synopsis: This Land Was Made for You & Me follows the development of American roots music from the 1930s to the 1950s. During the '30s, a number of folklorists began collecting traditional music in field recordings. John and Alan Lomax "discovered" African-American folksinger Huddie Ledbetter, known as Read More

All Star Jam

The Ballad of Ramblin' Jack

Actors: Jack Elliott

Synopsis: Ramblin' Jack Elliott, a self-styled folk musician, was an important transitional figure between Woody Guthrie and Bob Dylan. This documentary serves as both a chronicle of his colorful life and an attempt by his daughter, director Aiyanna Elliott, to reconnect with her often-absent father. Born Read More

Eye See You

Actors: Sylvester Stallone, Tom Berenger, Charles S. Dutton, Sean Patrick Flanery, Christopher Fulford, Dina Meyer, Robert Patrick, Robert Prosky, Courtney Vance

Synopsis: Sylvester Stallone returned to the screen after a three-year absence (excepting his voice work in Antz) with this tense and violent psychological crime thriller. FBI agent Jake Malloy (Stallone) has been traumatized by an especially vicious murder. No longer able to perform his job, Malloy is Read More

Perfect Murder, Perfect Town

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Marg Helgenberger, Ronny Cox, Ken Howard

Synopsis: This made-for-TV miniseries recounts the muddled criminal investigation of the JonBenet Ramsey murder -- one of the most luridly publicized crimes in recent memory. As the crime unfolds, the Boulder police squad grow increasingly swamped by the elusive details of the crime and the unprecedented Read More

Immaculate Funk

Actors: Jerry Wexler

Limbo

Actors: Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, David Strathairn, Vanessa Martinez, Kris Kristofferson, Casey Siemaszko, Kathryn Grody, Rita Taggart, Michael Laskin

Synopsis: Writer/director John Sayles once again takes his audience to a place they may never have been before (this time both psychologically and geographically). Joe Gastineau (David Strathairn) lives in Juneau, Alaska, where his life has been stuck in neutral for about 25 years. When he was young, Joe Read More

Payback

Actors: James Coburn, Mel Gibson, Gregg Henry, Maria Bello, Deborah Kara Unger, David Paymer

Synopsis: Porter (Mel Gibson) is pulled into a heist by his old friend, Val (Brian De Palma regular, Gregg Henry). As they're stealing $130,000 in laundered drug money from Chinese Triads, no one is going to call the police. Everything goes smoothly until Porter's wife, Lynn (Deborah Kara Unger), shoots Read More

Molokai: The Story of Father Damien

Actors: David Wenham, Kate Ceberano, Chris Haywood, Thom Hoffman, Derek Jacobi

Synopsis: Based on the true story of a priest who risked his life in order to help people no one else would touch (a wager he would eventually lose), Father Damien stars David Wenham as the titular Belgian saint. In 1872, Damien, a young Catholic priest serving as a missionary near Hawaii, volunteers to Read More

Netforce

Actors: Scott Bakula, Joanna Going, Xander R. Berkeley, Brian Dennehy, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Best-selling author Tom Clancy was executive producer of this made-for-TV spy thriller, which debuted on ABC in 1999. In the year 2005, the FBI has established a special division --"Netforce" -- to investigate crimes committed using the Internet. Agents Alex Michaels (Scott Bakula) and Steve Day (Kris Kristofferson Read More

The Joyriders

Actors: Martin Landau, Diane Venora, Kris Kristofferson, Shawn Hatosy

Synopsis: In this inspiring drama, Gordon Trout (Martin Landau) is a elderly man who was once a successful businessman but has become despondent since his wife left him. As Gordon gives serious thought to killing himself, he decides to buy a gun, but while at a shopping mall, he offers to give a ride to Read More

The Joyriders

A Soldier's Daughter Never Cries

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Barbara Hershey, Leelee Sobieski, Jesse Bradford, Anthony Roth Costanzo

Synopsis: James Ivory directed this drama adapted from Kaylie Jones' 1990 autobiographical novel in which the character Bill Willis is based on her father, James Jones, author of From Here to Eternity and A Thin Red Line. Ruth Prawer Jhabvala's screenplay about expatriate Americans in Paris during the Read More

Outlaw Justice

Actors: Travis Tritt, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson

Synopsis: Four superstars of country music saddle up in this made-for-television Western. Waylon Jennings plays Tobey, an aging gunslinger who is murdered by a malicious outlaw. Looking to settle the score, Lee (Willie Nelson), Tarence (Kris Kristofferson), and Dalton (Travis Tritt) team up with Tobey's son Read More

Blade

Actors: Wesley Snipes, Stephen Dorff, Kris Kristofferson, N'Bushe Wright, Donal Logue

Synopsis: British director Stephen Norrington helmed this David S. Goyer adaptation of the Marvel Comics character created in 1973 by scripter Marv Wolfman and artist Gene Colan. In the Tomb of Dracula comic book origin, just before Blade's mother gave birth to Blade, she was bitten by a vampire, which made Read More

Two for Texas

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Scott Bairstow, Tom Skerritt, Peter Coyote, Irene Bedard

Synopsis: Larry Brothers scripted this adaptation of the James Lee Burke novel that begins in a Louisiana penal colony during the 1830s. After middle-aged Allison (Kris Kristofferson) and young Holland (Scott Bairstow) make an escape, they take along Sana, a Choctaw (Irene Bedard, of Disney's animated Pocahontas Read More

Dance with Me

Actors: Vanessa Williams, Chayanne, Kris Kristofferson, Joan Plowright, Jane Krakowski, William Marquez, Harry Groener

Synopsis: Randa Haines directed this dance drama, focusing on young Cuban Rafael Infante (Latino singer Chayanne) after the death of his mother. Rafael leaves Cuba for Houston, where he meets his father John Burnett (Kris Kristofferson) for the first time. Burnette is unaware that the young man is his son Read More

Girls' Night

Actors: Brenda Blethyn, Julie Walters, Kris Kristofferson, James Gaddas, George Costigan

Synopsis: In the British North Country, in-laws Jackie (Julie Walters) and Dawn (Brenda Blethyn) work together on an assembly line at an electronics firm. Dawn is married to Jackie's brother Steve (George Costigan). Jackie's marriage is collapsing, and she has a secret affair with a bingo club run by Paul (James Gaddas Read More

Fire Down Below

Actors: Steven Seagal, Marg Helgenberger, Harry Dean Stanton, Stephen Lang, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Martial arts star Steven Seagal stars in this action drama as Jack Taggart, an undercover agent working for the Environmental Protection Agency. When an EPA representative is murdered in a small Appalachian community, Taggart is sent in -- posing as a handyman working with a Christian relief Read More

Message to Love: The Isle of Wight Festival

Synopsis: For about a year after the Woodstock Music and Art Fair in 1969, it seemed as though everyone wanted to stage a rock festival. However, The Rolling Stones' disastrous Altamont free concert (documented in the film Gimme Shelter) forever tarnished the image of the rock festival in the U.S., while in Read More

The Road Home

Live From Austin TX: Outlaw Country

Actors: Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Willie Nelson, Billy Joe Shaver, Kimmie Rhodes

Synopsis: The concert film Live from Austin, Texas: Outlaw Country brings together, on an Austin stage before a packed audience - three of modern country's legendary "highwaymen" - Kris Kristofferson, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson (minus the late and sorely missed Johnny Cash). Honky tonk balladeer Read More

Blue Rodeo

Synopsis: When Maggie Yearwood (Ann-Margret) threw her cheating husband out of the house, her son Peter (Corbin Allred) became so distraught that he attempted to kill himself--and after emerging from a coma, Peter had totally lost his hearing. Now enrolled in the Riverwall School for the Deaf in Arizona Read More

Lone Star

Actors: Miriam Colon, Chris Cooper, Elizabeth Peña, Joe Morton, Ron Canada, Clifton James, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Reminiscent of a fine novel in depth and complexity, writer-director John Sayles' acclaimed drama uses the investigation of a 25-year-old murder as the framework for a detailed exploration of life in a Texas border town. The nominal center of the film is Sheriff Sam Deeds (the superb, subtle Chris Cooper Read More

Tad

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Bug Hall

Synopsis: The true story of Abraham Lincoln and the special relationship he had with his son is told in this made-for-television drama. Kris Kristofferson stars as the President, who during the Civil War years was raising his seven year-old son Tad (Bug Hall), with his wife Mary (Jane Curtain). The film Read More

Big Dreams & Broken Hearts: The Dottie West Story

Actors: Michele Lee, Kenny Rogers, Larry Gatlin, William Russ, Chet Atkins

Synopsis: This musical biography chronicles the life of influential country music superstar Dottie West. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Pharaoh's Army

Synopsis: This fascinating historical drama, set in 1862 during the Civil War, chronicles the coming of age of a young Kentucky farm boy. The story begins in Meshack Creek, KY, a tense town where loyalties were sharply divided. Sarah Anders and her son were living there on an isolated farm while her husband Read More

Sodbusters

Actors: Fred Willard, Kris Kristofferson, Cody Jones

Synopsis: Kris Kristofferson stars as a loner in a small frontier town in this spoof western. Directed by Eugene Levy, the film offers its own take on the men and women who risked their lives for truth, justice, and all of that other good stuff. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, All Movie Guide Read More

The Larry Sanders Show: Arthur's Crisis

Synopsis: Troubled over the fact that Artie (Rip Torn) goes out for lunch and leaves him to make the difficult decisions concerning the show, Larry (Garry Shandling) becomes even more distraught when he finds out that Artie's lunch companion is none other than Donna Lasner (Linda Gehringer), the VP of Read More

Adventures of the Old W