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Best Kris Kristofferson movies

We present our ranking of the best Kris Kristofferson 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 Kris Kristofferson.

TOP 25: Silver City

Kris Kristofferson as: Wes Benteen
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2004
The discovery of a corpse threatens to unravel a bumbling local politician's campaign for governor of Colorado.


TOP 24: Powder Blue

Kris Kristofferson as: Randall
Genre: Drama
Release: 2009
On the gritty streets of LA, the destinies of four people desperate for connection and redemption are about to collide.

TOP 23: The Land Before Time VI: The Secret of Saurus Rock

Kris Kristofferson as: Doc (voice)
Genre: Animation, Family
Release: 1998
Legends claim that Saurus Rock keeps bad luck out of the Great Valley. Is it really true? Could the mysterious Longneck named Doc be the famous Lone Dinosaur, who can defeat a Sharptooth with his lasso-like tail? To find out, Littlefoot and company must cross the great Valley and face a dangerous Sharptooth themselves!


TOP 22: Fast Food Nation

Kris Kristofferson as: Rudy Martin
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Release: 2006
A dramatised examination of the health issues and social consequences of America's love affair with fast food.


TOP 21: Convoy

Kris Kristofferson as: Martin 'Rubber Duck' Penwald
Genre: Action, Comedy
Release: 1978
Truckers form a mile long "convoy" in support of a trucker's vendetta with an abusive sheriff...Based on the country song of same title by C.W. McCall.

TOP 20: The Motel Life

Kris Kristofferson as: Earl Hurley
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Thriller
Release: 2012
A pair of working-class brothers flee their Reno Motel after getting involved in a fatal hit-and-run accident.


TOP 19: Dance with Me

Kris Kristofferson as: John Burnett
Genre: Drama, Music, Romance
Release: 1998
Young Cuban Rafael just buried his mother, and comes to Houston to meet his father John for the first time. The difficult part is that John doesn't know he is Rafael's father. John runs a dance studio, and everyone prepares for the World Open Dance championship in Las Vegas. It soon becomes clear Rafael is a very good dancer, and Ruby is the biggest hope for the studio at the championship.


TOP 18: Blade II

Kris Kristofferson as: Whistler
Genre: Action, Fantasy, Horror, Thriller
Release: 2002
A rare mutation has occurred within the vampire community - The Reaper. A vampire so consumed with an insatiable bloodlust that they prey on vampires as well as humans, transforming victims who are unlucky enough to survive into Reapers themselves. Blade is asked by the Vampire Nation for his help in preventing a nightmare plague that would wipe out both humans and vampires.

TOP 17: He's Just Not That Into You

Kris Kristofferson as: Ken Murphy
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Romance
Release: 2009
Remember that really cute girl/guy who said they'd call – and didn't? Maybe they lost your number. Maybe they're in the hospital. Maybe they're awed by your looks, brains or success. Or maybe... They're just not that into you.


TOP 16: I'm Not There

Kris Kristofferson as: Narrator
Genre: Drama, Music
Release: 2007
Six actors portray six personas of music legend Bob Dylan in scenes depicting various stages of his life, chronicling his rise from unknown folksinger to international icon and revealing how Dylan constantly reinvented himself.


TOP 15: Heaven's Gate

Kris Kristofferson as: James Averill
Genre: Drama, Western
Release: 1980
Harvard graduate James Averill is the sheriff of prosperous Jackson County, Wyo., when a battle erupts between the area's poverty-stricken immigrants and its wealthy cattle farmers. The politically connected ranch owners fight the immigrants with the help of Nathan Champion, a mercenary competing with Averill for the love of local madam Ella Watson. As the struggle escalates, Averill and Champion begin to question their decisions.

TOP 14: Joyful Noise

Kris Kristofferson as: Bernard Sparrow
Genre: Comedy, Music
Release: 2012
G.G. Sparrow faces off with her choir's newly appointed director, Vi Rose Hill, over the group's direction as they head into a national competition.


TOP 13: Blade

Kris Kristofferson as: Whistler
Genre: Action, Horror
Release: 1998
When Blade's mother was bitten by a vampire during pregnancy, she did not know that she gave her son a special gift while dying—all the good vampire attributes in combination with the best human skills. Blade and his mentor battle an evil vampire rebel who plans to take over the outdated vampire council, capture Blade and resurrect a voracious blood god.


TOP 12: Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story

Kris Kristofferson as: Pop Crane
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 2005
Ben Crane believes that a severely injured racehorse deserves another chance. He and his daughter Cale adopt the mare and save it from being sacrificed by the owner.


TOP 11: Payback

Kris Kristofferson as: Bronson
Genre: Crime, Action, Drama
Release: 1999
With friends like these, who needs enemies? That's the question bad guy Porter is left asking after his wife and partner steal his heist money and leave him for dead -- or so they think. Five months and an endless reservoir of bitterness later, Porter's partners and the crooked cops on his tail learn how bad payback can be.

TOP 10: Dolphin Tale

Kris Kristofferson as: Reed Haskett
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 2011
A story centered on the friendship between a boy and a dolphin whose tail was lost in a crab trap.


TOP 9: Dolphin Tale 2

Kris Kristofferson as: Reed Hasket
Genre: Drama, Family
Release: 2014
The team of people who saved Winter's life reassemble in the wake of her surrogate mother's passing in order to find her a companion so she can remain at the Clearwater Marine Hospital.


TOP 8: The Jacket

Kris Kristofferson as: Dr. Thomas Becker
Genre: Thriller, Mystery, Drama
Release: 2005
A military veteran goes on a journey into the future, where he can foresee his death and is left with questions that could save his life and those he loves.


TOP 7: Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore

Kris Kristofferson as: David
Genre: Drama, Romance, Comedy
Release: 1974
After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.


TOP 6: Blaze

Kris Kristofferson as: Edwin Fuller
Genre: Drama, Music, History
Release: 2018
Re-imagining the life and times of Blaze Foley, the unsung songwriting Texas legend.

TOP 5: Bring Me the Head of Alfredo Garcia

Kris Kristofferson as: Biker
Genre: Action, Crime, Drama
Release: 1974
An American bartender and his prostitute girlfriend go on a road trip through the Mexican underworld to collect a $1 million bounty on the head of a dead gigolo.


TOP 4: Limbo

Kris Kristofferson as: 'Smilin' Jack Johannson
Genre: Adventure, Drama, Thriller
Release: 1999
Unconventional narrative about the interactions amongst a group of people in a small town in Alaska, each of whom guards a secret.


TOP 3: Lone Star

Kris Kristofferson as: Charlie Wade
Genre: Drama, Mystery, Romance
Release: 1996
When the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.


TOP 2: Easy Riders, Raging Bulls: How the Sex, Drugs and Rock 'N' Roll Generation Saved Hollywood

Kris Kristofferson as: Himself
Genre: Documentary
Release: 2003
A look at 1970s Hollywood when it was known as New Hollywood, and the director was the star of the movie.


TOP 1: Pat Garrett & Billy the Kid

Kris Kristofferson as: William H. Bonney (Billy the Kid)
Genre: Western
Release: 1973
An aging Pat Garrett is hired as a lawman on behalf of a group of wealthy New Mexico cattle barons--his sole purpose being to bring down his old friend Billy the Kid.

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