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Best A.C. Peterson movies

We present our ranking of the best A.C. Peterson movies. Do you love cinema? Or are you looking for a movie of your favorite actor to watch tonight? Surely you have some to see or that you did not know yet about A.C. Peterson.

TOP 25: The Samaritan

A.C. Peterson as: Miro
Genre: Thriller
Release: 2012
After twenty years in prison, Foley is finished with the grifter's life. When he meets an elusive young woman named Iris, the possibility of a new start looks real. But his past is proving to be a stubborn companion.


TOP 24: The Case for Christmas

A.C. Peterson as: Judge Stewart
Genre: TV Movie, Fantasy, Comedy, Drama
Release: 2011
An up-and-coming attorney risks it all to help defend Santa when Christmas is in jeopardy of cancellation.

TOP 23: The Big Town

A.C. Peterson as: Doorman (as Alar Aedma)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1987
It is 1957. J.C. Cullen is a young man from a small town, with a talent for winning at craps, who leaves for the big city to work as a professional gambler. While there, he breaks the bank at a private craps game at the Gem Club, owned by George Cole, and falls in love with two women, one of them Cole's wife.


TOP 22: Agent Cody Banks

A.C. Peterson as: Dark Agent
Genre: Action, Adventure, Comedy, Family
Release: 2003
Recruited by the U.S. government to be a special agent, nerdy teenager Cody Banks must get closer to cute classmate Natalie in order to learn about an evil plan hatched by her father. But despite the agent persona, Cody struggles with teen angst.


TOP 21: D-Tox

A.C. Peterson as: Gilbert
Genre: Action, Thriller, Horror
Release: 2002
A disgraced FBI agent with a drinking problem joins nine other troubled law enforcement officers at an isolated detox clinic in the wilds of Wyoming. But the therapeutic sanctuary becomes a nightmarish hellhole when a major snowstorm cuts off the clinic from the outside world and enables a killer on the inside to get busy.

TOP 20: A Single Shot

A.C. Peterson as: Cole
Genre: Drama, Crime, Thriller
Release: 2013
The tragic death of a beautiful young girl starts a tense and atmospheric game of cat and mouse between hunter John Moon and the hardened backwater criminals out for his blood.


TOP 19: Who Is Cletis Tout?

A.C. Peterson as: Henry Flatt
Genre: Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2001
A comedy about a hitman who sees everything in terms of the movies and how mistaken identity is getting in the way of recovering a stash of diamonds that was stolen and subsequently hidden more than 20 years earlier.


TOP 18: A Christmas Horror Story

A.C. Peterson as: Big Earl
Genre: Horror, Fantasy
Release: 2015
Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, peace and goodwill. But for some folks in the small town of Bailey Downs, it turns into something much less festive.

TOP 17: The Stakelander

A.C. Peterson as: Bat
Genre: Action, Horror
Release: 2016
When his home of New Eden is destroyed by a revitalized Brotherhood and its new Vamp leader, Martin finds himself alone in the badlands of America with only the distant memory of his mentor and legendary vampire hunter, Mister, to guide him.


TOP 16: The Conspiracy

A.C. Peterson as: Terrance
Genre: Horror, Thriller
Release: 2012
A documentary about conspiracy theories takes a horrific turn after the filmmakers uncover an ancient and dangerous secret society.


TOP 15: Stonewall

A.C. Peterson as: Man in Red Dress
Genre: Drama, History
Release: 2015
Kicked out by his parents, a gay teenager leaves small-town Indiana for New York's Greenwich Village, where growing discrimination against the gay community leads to riots on June 28, 1969.

TOP 14: Stay Tuned

A.C. Peterson as: Wrestling Referee
Genre: Comedy, Fantasy
Release: 1992
Salesman Roy Knable spends all his free time watching television, to the exasperation of his wife, Helen. One day, TV salesman Spike convinces Roy to buy a satellite dish offering 666 channels. The new addition to Roy's home entertainment system sucks him and Helen into Hellvision, a realm run by Spike, who is an emissary of Satan. For 24 hours, the couple must survive devilish parodies of TV programs if they want to return to reality alive.


TOP 13: Mrs. Soffel

A.C. Peterson as: Guard (uncredited)
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 1984
Kate Soffel is married to a prison warden in Pittsburgh, and is the mother of their four children. Ed Biddle is a convicted murderer awaiting execution on death row with his brother Jack. When Kate meets Eddie through her Bible readings to the prisoners, she is drawn to him, and they pursue a clandestine relationship. She agrees to help the brothers escape, and begins a treacherous journey with them to freedom in Canada.


TOP 12: He Never Died

A.C. Peterson as: Televangelist
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, Horror
Release: 2015
Jack is a solitary man with a mysterious past. His strange habits will soon become stranger when his past catches up with him.


TOP 11: The Art of the Steal

A.C. Peterson as: Reverend Herman Headly
Genre: Comedy, Crime
Release: 2013
Crunch Calhoun, a third-rate motorcycle daredevil and part-time art thief, teams up with his snaky brother to steal one of the most valuable books in the world. But it's not just about the book for Crunch — he's keen to rewrite some chapters of his own past as well.

TOP 10: Sucker Punch

A.C. Peterson as: Mayor / Lighter Orderly
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Thriller
Release: 2011
A young girl, institutionalised by her abusive stepfather, retreats to an alternative reality as a coping strategy and envisions a plan to help her escape.


TOP 9: Flashback

A.C. Peterson as: Mr. MacDonald
Genre: Thriller
Release: 2020
Frederick Fitzell is living his best life—until he starts having horrific visions of Cindy, a girl who vanished in high school. After reaching out to old friends with whom he used to take a mystery drug called Mercury, Fredrick realizes the only way to stop the visions lies deep within his own memories, so he embarks on a terrifying mental odyssey to learn the truth.


TOP 8: We

A.C. Peterson as: Truck Driver
Genre: Drama, Romance
Release: 2019
Dating within different cultures and being open to all religions, Ethan must deal with constant roadblocks. From First Nations to South American, his journey to find love in Toronto is nothing but complex. He faces discrimination and depression but always remains optimistic.


TOP 7: On the Twelfth Day of Christmas

A.C. Peterson as: Alan Kramer
Genre: Romance, TV Movie
Release: 2015
Maggie Chalke is torn between her journalistic integrity and helping her long time crush Mitch O'Grady when her boss orders her to write a story for the paper about the Secret Santa gifts she's been sending Mitch to help him relearn his love for Christmas.


TOP 6: Run

A.C. Peterson as: Denny Halloran
Genre: Action, Thriller, Drama
Release: 1991
While conveying a Porsche from Boston to Atlantic City, student Charlie has to make a stop due to engine trouble. Mistaken as rich, he's invited to a big poker game -- and wins big time. However Denny Halloran, son of a mighty mobster, is a bad loser and starts a fight. But he's also a bad fighter: he falls on his head and is dead. Now Charlie's in trouble; after he flees Halloran's father puts a reward on his head. Even the police won't help him against the mighty man... so Charlie has to run for his life.

TOP 5: Defendor

A.C. Peterson as: Radovan Kristic
Genre: Drama, Action, Comedy, Crime
Release: 2009
A crooked cop, a mob boss and the young girl they abuse are the denizens of a city's criminal underworld. It's a world that ordinary Arthur Poppington doesn't understand and doesn't belong in, but is committed to fighting when he changes into a vigilante super-hero of his own making, Defendor. With no power other than courage Defendor takes to the streets to protect the city's innocents.


TOP 4: Shanghai Noon

A.C. Peterson as: Saddle Rock Sheriff
Genre: Adventure, Action, Comedy, Western
Release: 2000
Chon Wang, a clumsy imperial guard trails Princess Pei Pei when she is kidnapped from the Forbidden City and transported to America. Wang follows her captors to Nevada, where he teams up with an unlikely partner, outcast outlaw Roy O'Bannon, and tries to spring the princess from her imprisonment.


TOP 3: Narc

A.C. Peterson as: Freeman Franks
Genre: Crime, Drama, Mystery
Release: 2002
When the trail goes cold on a murder investigation of a policeman, an undercover narcotics officer is lured back to the force to help solve the case.


TOP 2: Shooter

A.C. Peterson as: Officer Stanley Timmons
Genre: Action, Drama, Mystery, Thriller, Crime
Release: 2007
A top Marine sniper, Bob Lee Swagger, leaves the military after a mission goes horribly awry and disappears, living in seclusion. He is coaxed back into service after a high-profile government official convinces him to help thwart a plot to kill the President of the United States. Ultimately double-crossed and framed for the attempt, Swagger becomes the target of a nationwide manhunt. He goes on the run to track the real killer and find out who exactly set him up, and why, eventually seeking revenge against some of the most powerful and corrupt leaders in the free world.


TOP 1: Molly's Game

A.C. Peterson as: Stranger
Genre: Drama, Crime
Release: 2017
Molly Bloom, a young skier and former Olympic hopeful becomes a successful entrepreneur (and a target of an FBI investigation) when she establishes a high-stakes, international poker game.

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