Kris KristoffersonFilmography

He's Just Not That Into You

Actors: Ben Affleck, Jennifer Aniston, Drew Barrymore, Jennifer Connelly, Kevin Connolly

Synopsis: Ken Kwapis' adaptation of Greg Behrendt and Liz Tuccillo's best-selling self-help book He's Just Not That Into You follows the love lives of a dozen or so characters. Ginnifer Goodwin stars as Gigi, a young women attempting to understand the mixed signals she gets from the men she's dating. She Read More

Legends & Lyrics: Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin and Randy Owen

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Patty Griffin, Randy Owen

Synopsis: The concert series opens with Kris Kristofferson, who performs "Best of All Possible Worlds," "Here Comes That Rainbow Again" and "Me and Bobby McGee"; singer-songwriter Patty Griffin, with "Up to the Mountain (MLK Song)", "Top of the World" and "No Bad News"; and Randy Owen, who sings "Feels So Read More

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

Elvis: Return to Tupelo

Actors: Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: This documentary on music legend Elvis Presley traces the roots of the king's fame back to his birthplace in Tupelo, Mississippi, examining both how his upbringing and the creative culture of his hometown helped mold him into the musician he would become. ~ Cammila Albertson, All Movie Guide Read More

Jump Out Boys

Actors: DMX, Kris Kristofferson, Ameer Baraka, Kane & Abel

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' 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 Look Back 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

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

Sacred Tibet - The Path to Mount Kailash

Actors: Kris Kristofferson

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

Room 10

Actors: Robin Wright Penn, Kris Kristofferson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

All Star Jam

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

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

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

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

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

Immaculate Funk

Actors: Jerry Wexler

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

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

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

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 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

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's 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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The Road Home

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Adventures of the Old West: Pioneers and the Promised Land

Synopsis: This video is one of a six part documentary series on the story of western expansion in the United States. As land continued to open, many hearty souls set out, hoping for a bright future. They were all seekers, though not after the same goals. Some longed for land and riches, others for gold and Read More

Adventures of the Old West: The 49ers and the California Gold Rush

Synopsis: The 1848 discovery of gold in California's American River led many men to travel west in search of the dream of instant wealth. What they found when they got there is the subject of this episode of Adventures of the Old West. Judicious use of archival materials brings the period alive. The Gold Read More

Adventures of the Old West: Scouts in the Wilderness

Synopsis: This documentary is one of a six part series on the colorful figures who pushed west, as America's lands were opened up to further expansion. Narrated by Kris Kristofferson, this segment examines the role of the men and women who went first -- going where no one had ever been. Driven by a sense of Read More

Adventures of the Old West: Texas Cowboys and the Trail Drives

Synopsis: Relive the rugged, independent life of the Texas cowboy. In Adventures of the Old West: Cowboys and the Trail Drives, the colorful and hearty characters of this romantic period in history come alive. Rare photos, detailed journals, archival footage, personal diaries and letters, entertaining Read More

Johnny Cash: Cash in Ireland

Actors: Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash, Kris Kristofferson, The Carter Family, John Carter Cash

Synopsis: One of the greatest and most distinctive figures in American country music, Johnny Cash was also a major star in Europe, and in 1993 Cash made a stop in Dublin, Ireland, during a tour of the United Kingdom. The show was videotaped for television broadcast, and Johnny Cash: Cash in Ireland 1993 Read More

Knights

Synopsis: The venerable character actor Lance Henriksen plays an archetypically Machiavellian leader of bad cyborgs in this sci-fi action drama. Country-western staple Kris Kristofferson co-stars as Gabriel, a good cyborg who teams up with a sexy kick-boxer named Nia (Kathy Long) to fight the robots and Read More

Cheatin' Hearts

Actors: Sally Kirkland, James Brolin, Pam Gidley, Kris Kristofferson, Laura Johnson

Synopsis: Rod McCall wrote and directed this slice-of-life melodrama about a woman in a mid-life crisis who struggles to preserve her home and family. Sally Kirkland stars as Jenny, who must deal with a serious problem involving her errant husband Henry (James Brolin) as she prepares for the wedding of her Read More

No Place to Hide

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Drew Barrymore, Martin Landau, O.J. Simpson, Dey Young

Synopsis: In this gory thriller, a troubled dancer has just enough time to convince her little sister to hide a videotape before she is stabbed to death by an unseen killer, leaving the surviving sister in grave danger. Fortunately, a cynical but determined cop comes on the case to help her. ~ Sandra Read More

Adventures of the Old West: Great Chiefs at the Crossroads

Synopsis: Great Chiefs at the Crossroads - part three of the Adventures of the Old West series - provides historical accounts of leaders of Indian tribes whose people were driven from their lands and had their way of life disrupted by white settlers. The story of how these Native American leaders attempted Read More

Adventures of the Old West [Video Series]

Trouble Shooters: Trapped Beneath the Earth

Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work

Synopsis: Kris Kristofferson may well be the only Rhodes Scholar who wound up on a successful journey to Hollywood, and a lifestyle of the rich and famous. Kris Kristofferson: His Life and Work traces the singer/songwriter/actor's career from his early days as a student and an Army captain, to his break Read More

Adventures of the Old West: Frontier Justice - The Law and the Lawless

Synopsis: In this episode of Adventures of the Old West, viewers are introduced to some notorious outlaws and the men who tried to bring them to heel. In the Wild West, justice often began and ended at the point of a gun. Through the use of period materials, this video brings the past alive. This video is Read More

The Highwaymen: On the Road Again

Synopsis: The four legends who make up the Highwaymen appear in this performance video of a 1992 European tour. Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Waylon Jennings, and Kris Kristofferson pool their considerable talents and showmanship in The Highwaymen: On the Road Again, performing some of their greatest hits. In Read More

Christmas in Connecticut

Actors: Dyan Cannon, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Made for cable television, a TV-show homemaker (Dyan Cannon) invites a local hero (Kris Kristofferson) over for a live-broadcast Christmas dinner, but her lack of cooking skills could cause a problem. The film was directed by Arnold Schwarzenegger. ~ John Bush, All Movie Guide Read More

Miracle in the Wilderness

Actors: Kim Cattrall, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Derived from Paul Gallico's novella The Snow Goose, this Christmas fable stars Kris Kristofferson as Jericho Adams, a one-time Indian fighter. On Christmas Eve, he, his wife (Kim Cattrall) and their child are kidnapped by a band of revenge-minded Blackfeet warriors being hunted by the U.S. Read More

Original Intent

Actors: Martin Sheen

Synopsis: In this earnest, socially conscious drama, a prominent young lawyer rethinks his yuppie lifestyle and risks it all to become a staunch defender of homeless people's rights. Look for Martin Sheen (a strong advocate for the homeless) in a cameo role as a street person. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Read More

Another Pair of Aces: Three of a Kind

Actors: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Joan Severance, Shelby Lynne

Synopsis: The original made-for-TV Pair of Aces starred Kris Kristofferson as a Texas Ranger who, while searching for a serial killer, is aided and abetted by introspective safecracker Willie Nelson. The Kristofferson-Nelson combo proved so unbeatable in the ratings that a sequel was immediately Read More

Sandino

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Dean Stockwell, Ángela Molina, Victoria Abril

Synopsis: Guerilla wars against the major powers have been a factor in Central American politics for a long time. This biographical drama is based on the life of Nicaragua's prototypical 20th century guerilla, Augusto C. Sandino (born as Augusto Nicolás Calderón Sandino). His name and life were the Read More

The Highwaymen: Live

Synopsis: This program features performances by the Highwaymen, a country supergroup composed of Johnny Cash, aylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, and Willie Nelson. Filmed in 1990, together the group tears through 26 songs. Sprinkled among the performances are several segments in which the men discuss their Read More

A Pair of Aces

Actors: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Rip Torn, Helen Shaver, Jane Cameron

Synopsis: In this made-for-TV western, Willie Nelson portrays a safecracker in the custody of a Texas Ranger (Kris Kristofferson) who is also in pursuit of a serial killer. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

In the Hank Williams Tradition

Synopsis: Top country stars pay tribute to the "King of Country Music," Hank Williams, in this film In the Hank Williams Tradition. Through interviews with Minnie Pearl and Roy Acuff, who both knew him personally, a portrait of Williams emerges. Host Dwight Yoakam offers glimpses into the life of the famous Read More

Night of the Cyclone

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Jeffrey Meek, Marisa Berenson

Synopsis: In this thriller a Chicago policeman grows suspicious after his daughter does not return from a modeling assignment on a Caribbean island. He flies out to find her and finds himself in some rather strange situations. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Welcome Home

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, JoBeth Williams, Brian Keith, Sam Waterston, Trey Wilson

Synopsis: In this made-for-cable TV drama, Lt. Jake Robbins (Kris Kristofferson) was presumed to have been killed in action during the Vietnam War. His wife, Sarah (JoBeth Williams) and his son were forced to get on with their lives; however when Jake turns up in Thailand many years later with a Cambodian Read More

Millennium

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Cheryl Ladd, Daniel J. Travanti, Robert Joy, Al Waxman, Lloyd Bochner

Synopsis: Where has director Michael Anderson been since Logan's Run? Earning his keep on such slick TV-style time-fillers as Millennium. Kris Kristofferson plays the head of an official committee investigating the head-on collision of two commercial jets. A thorough analysis reveals the presence of a Read More

Jerry Lee Lewis: I Am What I Am

Synopsis: This 1987 documentary presents the life story of influential singer, songwriter, and musician Jerry Lee Lewis, whose pioneering brand of country-blues-boogie shook the world of rock & roll. Nicknamed "The Killer," and a cousin of notorious televangelist Jimmy Swaggart, Lewis displayed a prodigious Read More

Big Top Pee-Wee

Actors: Paul Reubens, Kris Kristofferson, Valeria Golino, Penelope Ann Miller, Susan Tyrrell

Synopsis: Paul Reubens's followup to the box-office hit Pee-Wee's Big Adventure is just as outrageous and cartoonish, though not as good. This time, child-man Pee-Wee runs a colorful farm, chock full of talking animals and outsized produce. On the morning after a tornado of Wizard of Oz dimensions, Pee-Wee Read More

The Tracker

Synopsis: A tracking gunman is joined by his collegian son in an effort to catch a homicidal religious freak in this made-for-cable western. ~ Kristie Hassen, All Movie Guide Read More

Charles Haughey's Ireland

Amerika

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Wendy Hughes, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Robert Urich, Cindy Pickett

Synopsis: As the brainchild of writer-director-producer Donald Wrye, the 14 1/2 hour ABC movie event Amerika marked one of the most expensive and controversial miniseries in the history of prime time television when it bowed over the course of seven nights in February of 1987. Regarded as something of a Read More

Something Wild

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Jeff Daniels, Melanie Griffith, Ray Liotta, Margaret Colin

Synopsis: A wildly inventive and entertaining comic nightmare from former Roger Corman prodigy Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs), this screwball odyssey is a ride to remember. Jeff Daniels plays clean-cut New York bond trader Charlie Driggs, who accepts a ride home from a strange but attractive Read More

The Last Days of Frank & Jesse James

Synopsis: Country music legends Johnny Cash and Kris Kristofferson star as Frank and Jesse James in this made-for-TV biography of the notorious Old West criminals. ~ Jason Ankeny, All Movie Guide Read More

Blood and Orchids

Actors: Jane Alexander, William Russ, Matt Salinger, Sean Young, Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Blood and Orchids was adapted from Norman Katkov from his own fact-based book. The scene is Hawaii, 1937. The wife (Madeline Stowe) of a naval officer (William Russ) is beaten nearly to death by her lover (Matt Salinger)--her husband's best friend. Four native Hawaiians find the woman and take her Read More

Stagecoach

Synopsis: The outlaws of country music--including Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Willie Nelson--team up and head across the Southwestern desert braving Indians, brigands and conflict in this made-for television version of John Ford's classic film. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Trouble in Mind

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Keith Carradine, Lori Singer, Geneviève Bujold, Joe Morton

Synopsis: The time is The Future: the place is Rain City, formerly Seattle. The city is a police state, while the citizens have adopted the manner and dress of 1940s gangsters. Recently released from prison, ex-cop Kris Kristofferson tries to touch base with his ex-girlfriend Genevieve Bujold, who runs a Read More

Flashpoint

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Treat Williams, Rip Torn, Kevin Conway, Kurtwood Smith, Tess Harper

Synopsis: Bob Logan (Kris Kristofferson) and Ernie Wyatt (Treat Williams) are freewheeling U.S. border patrol officers in a tiny Texas town. Though they're "oil and water" in terms of personality, they're a dynamite team on the job. Coming across a million dollars in stolen money, their relationship Read More

Songwriter

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Willie Nelson, Kris Kristofferson, Melinda Dillon, Rip Torn, Lesley Ann Warren

Synopsis: A good ol' boy comedy-drama, Songwriter flashes enough substance between the songs and the hijinks to qualify as a sometimes astute look into the darker areas of the music business. Willie Nelson plays Doc Jenkins, the title character, who conspires with longtime pal Blackie Buck (Kris Kristofferson Read More

The Other Side of Nashville

The Lost Honor of Kathryn Beck

Synopsis: This made-for-TV film is an Americanized remake of the 1975 German film The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum (based on the novel by Heinrich Böll). Shorn of most of her movie-star glamour, Marlo Thomas plays Kathryn Beck, whose one-night stand with handsome Ben Cole (Kris Kristofferson) all but ruins Read More

Hawk

Live From Austin TX: Kris Kristofferson

Actors: Kris Kristofferson

Synopsis: Live from Austin, Texas: Kris Kristofferson contains a performance by the singer and songwriter recorded for broadcast on the music program Austin City Limits. This release contains performances not seen on the original broadcast. The setlist includes "Me and Bobby McGee," "For the Good Times," Read More

Country Classics: A Celebration!

Synopsis: This video features clips from a live performance of country music, with some of the genre's biggest stars, including Tanya Tucker, Glen Campbell, Roger Miller, Kris Kristofferson, Delaney and Bonnie, Maureen McGovern, Gary Busey, and Duane Eddy. Among the popular tunes performed in the concert Read More

Heaven's Gate

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Christopher Walken, Isabelle Huppert, Sam Waterston, John Hurt, Brad Dourif

Synopsis: A notorious artistic and financial failure, Michael Cimino's Heaven's Gate was blamed for critically wounding the movie Western and definitively ushering out the 1970s Hollywood New Wave of young, brash, independent filmmakers. Taking a revisionist, post-Vietnam view of American imperialism Read More

Rollover

Actors: Jane Fonda, Kris Kristofferson, Hume Cronyn, Josef Sommer, Bob Gunton

Synopsis: Alan J. Pakula directs the political thriller Rollover, produced by leading lady Jane Fonda's production company, IPC Films. Featuring a racist plot and negative stereotypes about the Arab world, this film reflected the American fear of the Middle East prevalent in the early '80s. Fonda stars as Read More

Freedom Road

Synopsis: Muhammad Ali made his TV-movie dramatic debut in this adaptation of Howard Fast's novel Freedom Road. Though some of the names are changed, the story concerns the true-life efforts of senators Charles Sumner and Thaddeus Stevens to bring political order and racial equality to the post-Civil War Read More

Johnny Cash Christmas Special 1978

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge, Steve Martin, June Carter Cash, Johnny Cash

Synopsis: This installment in the series of Christmas specials that, for a time, were a tradition for the legendary Man in Black features musician Johnny Cash performing songs such as "Christmas Can't Be Far Away," and "Ballad Of A Teenage Queen." The special also features special appearances by Kris Read More

The Muppet Show: Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge

Synopsis: Guest stars Kris Kristofferson and Rita Coolidge join the Muppets for fun, gags, and musical performances including renditions of "New York State of Mind" and "My Wild Irish Rose". Sam the American Eagle adds his brand of patriotism to piano dog Rowlf's version of "A Frog He Would A-Wooing Go". Read More

Convoy

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Ali MacGraw, Ernest Borgnine, Burt Young, Madge Sinclair

Synopsis: The CB (citizen's band) radio fad had nearly run its course when this feel-good action film was made by director Sam Peckinpah. In the story, based on C.W. McCall's song "Convoy", a group of struggling truckers (who stay in touch by CB) run into a situation which ignites their indignation. They Read More

Semi-Tough

Actors: Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Preston, Bert Convy

Synopsis: Burt Reynolds and Kris Kristofferson star as two pro-football pals who both fall for the team-owner's very rich daughter. Kind of goofy, kind of funny, and somewhat endearing--those are the qualities that surface in this light-hearted comedy built upon an extremely predictable scenario. ~ All Read More

Vigilante Force

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Jan-Michael Vincent, Victoria Principal, Bernadette Peters, Brad Dexter

Synopsis: In this exciting adventure, the residents of a remote California community grow tired of having their lives disrupted by growing groups of rowdy oilworkers who have no respect for law and order. In desperation they hire a Vietnam veteran to clean up the town. The ex-fighter brings in a band of Read More

A Star Is Born

Actors: Barbra Streisand, Kris Kristofferson, Paul Mazursky, Gary Busey, Oliver Clark

Synopsis: The third remake of the 1932 drama What Price Hollywood?, this adaptation of A Star Is Born moved the story into the mid-1970's and changed the milieu from the movie business to pop music. John Norman Howard (Kris Kristofferson) is a rock star whose career has peaked; he is numbed by booze and Read More

Saturday Night Live: Kris Kristofferson

Actors: Kris Kristofferson, Rita Coolidge

Synopsis: This 1976 episode of Saturday Night Live is hosted by Kris Kristofferson and features musical guest Rita Coolidge. ~ Skyler Miller, All Movie Guide Read More

The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea

Actors: Sarah Miles, Kris Kristofferson, Jonathan Kahn, Margo Cunningham, Earl Rhodes

Synopsis: A distraught youth is troubled by his mother's new relationship with her sailor boyfriend who occasionally drops by when his ship is in. The sailor (Kris Kristofferson) is a caring man who offers a supportive relationship to the woman as well as a kind word for the youth. In his confused and Read More

Free to Be... You and Me

Actors: Marlo Thomas

Synopsis: Marlo Thomas served as both producer and star for this landmark 1974 television special, which, through songs, stories, and comedy sketches, encourages children to accept and celebrate diversity in others, and embrace their own individuality. Guests stars include Mel Brooks, Alan Alda, Harry Read More

Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Actors: Ellen Burstyn, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Alfred Lutter, Diane Ladd, Lelia Goldoni

Synopsis: Martin Scorsese's first Hollywood studio production also marked his first (and only) foray into a woman-centered story. Alice Hyatt (Ellen Burstyn), a resigned Southwest housewife, takes advantage of her trucker husband's sudden death to hit the road with her bratty son Tommy (Alfred Lutter) and Read More

Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Actors: Warren Oates, Isela Vega, Gig Young, Robert Webber, Helmut Dantine

Synopsis: Wealthy Mexican Emilio Fernandez puts a million-dollar bounty on the head of Alfredo Garcia, who has seduced and knocked up Fernandez's daughter. Trouble is, Alfredo Garcia is already dead and buried. Barkeep Bennie (Warren Oates) is appointed by two of Fernandez's hit men (Robert Webber and Gig Young Read More

Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid

Actors: James Coburn, Kris Kristofferson, Bob Dylan

Synopsis: A former friend betrays a legendary outlaw in Sam Peckinpah's final Western. Holed up in Fort Sumner with his gang between cattle rustlings, Billy the Kid (Kris Kristofferson) ignores the advice of comrade-turned-lawman Pat Garrett (James Coburn) to escape to Mexico, and he winds up in jail in Read More

Blume in Love

Actors: George Segal, Susan Anspach, Kris Kristofferson, Marsha Mason, Shelley Winters

Synopsis: In the Los Angeles of yoga, therapy, and well-off liberals, a divorcé decides that his ex-wife is the love of his life in Paul Mazursky's romantic comedy. Beverly Hills divorce lawyer Stephen Blume (George Segal) becomes his own client when his social worker wife Nina (Susan Anspach) throws him Read More

The Gospel Road

Crew: Songwriter

Actors: Robert Elfstrom, Johnny Cash, June Carter Cash

Synopsis: This musical documentary of Jesus' life, filmed mostly in Israel, takes a nondenominational but conservative religious approach to the story. Johnny Cash and Larry Murray wrote the script, and the film was produced by June Carter Cash and Johnny Cash. The music includes songs by John Denver, Kris Kristofferson Read More

Fat City

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Singer

Actors: Stacy Keach, Jeff Bridges, Susan Tyrrell, Candy Clark, Nicholas Colasanto

Synopsis: With a screenplay adapted by Leonard Gardner from his own novel, John Huston's drama examines the meager hopes and resigned dreams of small-time boxers. In limbo between retirement and his youthful prime, alcoholic farm laborer Tully (Stacy Keach) shacks up with fellow outcast Oma (Susan Tyrrell) Read More

The Last Movie

Crew: Composer (Music Score)

Actors: Dennis Hopper, Stella Garcia, Samuel Fuller, Peter Fonda, Julie Adams

Synopsis: With a barrage of cinematic distancing devices at hand (flashbacks and flash-forwards, super-imposed titles, missing frames, projectionist cue-marks placed in the wrong locations in a film reel), Dennis Hopper concocts a hallucinatory acid-trip concerning an American movie company making a western Read More

Cisco Pike

Crew: Composer (Music Score), Songwriter

Actors: Hugh Romney

Synopsis: This crime-drama follows the exploits of a rock star who is finally freed from prison after being convicted of drug dealing. Though he wants to go straight, he is blackmailed by a crooked cop who forces him to sell marijuana. ~ Sandra Brennan, All Movie Guide Read More

Armageddon Express

Synopsis: This documentary is a tribute to peace activists, containing two separate films on peace protests. The first, "The Healing of Brian Wilson" tells the story of a protester whose legs were cut off by a train carrying weapons. The second film, "The Arms Race Within", focuses on activists who are Read More