Peter Coyote films and TV shows, ranked by your taste

Actor · 19 films and 2 TV shows on Boxlist

Known for E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial, Erin Brockovich and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room.

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Starring Peter Coyote

The Girl Who Believes in Miracles
2021 · Film
7.8/10 · TMDB
When Sara hears a preacher say faith can move mountains, she starts praying. Suddenly people in her town are mysteriously healed! But fame soon takes its toll – can Sara’s family save her before it’s too late?
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A Walk to Remember
2002 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
When the popular, restless Landon Carter is forced to participate in the school drama production he falls in love with Jamie Sullivan, the daughter of the town's minister. Jamie has a "to-do" list for her life and also a very big secret...
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E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1982 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
After a gentle alien becomes stranded on Earth, the being is discovered and befriended by a young boy named Elliott. Bringing the extraterrestrial into his suburban California house, Elliott introduces E.T., as the alien is dubbed, to his...
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Spielberg
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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Erin Brockovich
2000 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
A twice-divorced mother of three who sees an injustice, takes on the bad guy and wins -- with a little help from her push-up bra. Erin goes to work for an attorney and comes across medical records describing illnesses clustered in one...
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Patch Adams
1998 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
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Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
2005 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A documentary about the Enron corporation, its faulty and corrupt business practices, and how they led to its fall.
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The Comey Rule
2020 · TV
7.3/10 · TMDB
An immersive, behind-the-headlines account of the historically turbulent events surrounding the 2016 presidential election and its aftermath, which divided a nation. This two-part biopic tells the story of two powerful figures, Comey and...
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Bitter Moon
1992 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A passenger on a cruise ship develops an irresistible infatuation with an eccentric paraplegic's wife.
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Southern Comfort
1981 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A squad of National Guards on an isolated weekend exercise in the Louisiana swamp must fight for their lives when they anger local Cajuns by stealing their canoes. Without live ammunition and in a strange country, their experience begins...
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Jagged Edge
1985 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
San Francisco heiress Page Forrester is brutally murdered in her remote beach house. Her husband Jack is devastated by the crime but soon finds himself accused of her murder. He hires lawyer Teddy Barnes to defend him, despite the fact she...
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Resurrecting the Champ
2007 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
Up-and-coming sports reporter rescues a homeless man ("Champ") only to discover that he is, in fact, a boxing legend believed to have passed away. What begins as an opportunity to resurrect Champ's story and escape the shadow of his...
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The Phenomenon
2020 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
This documentary examines unidentified aerial phenomenon. With testimony from high-ranking government officials, and NASA Astronauts, Senator Harry Reid says it "makes the incredible credible."
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Sphere
1998 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The OSSA discovers a spacecraft thought to be at least 300 years old at the bottom of the ocean. Immediately following the discovery, they decide to send a team down to the depths of the ocean to study the space craft. They are the best of...
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Hemingway & Gellhorn
2012 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Writer Ernest Hemingway begins a romance with fellow scribe Martha Gellhorn.
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Outrageous Fortune
1987 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Refined actress Lauren Ames finally has a chance to study with the great theatre professor Stanislav Korzenowski. Sandy Brozinsky, a brash, loud actress, decides through happenstance to also study with Korzenowski. The two women end up...
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Good Kill
2015 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
In the shadowy world of drone warfare, combat unfolds like a video game–only with real lives at stake. After six tours of duty, Air Force pilot Tom Egan now fights the Taliban from an air-conditioned bunker in the Nevada desert. But as he...
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The American Revolution
2025 · TV
5.6/10 · TMDB
The American Revolution was at once a war for independence, a war of conquest, a civil war, and a world war, fought by neighbors on American farms and between global powers an ocean or more away. It impacted millions from Vermont’s Green...
Dr. Dolittle: Tail to the Chief
2008 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Maya Dolittle is back in a heartwarming adventure of presidential proportions! Maya's dream of going to vet school is put on hold when she gets a call from the president of the United States. It seems the First Dog is out of control, and...
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Random Hearts
1999 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
After the death of their loved ones in a tragic plane crash, Harrison Ford and Kristin Scott Thomas find each other's keys in each other's loved ones' possessions and realize that the two were having an affair and they must figure out all...
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Return of the Living Dead: Necropolis
2005 · Film
5.2/10 · TMDB
A group of teenagers who, in an attempt to rescue their friend from an evil corporation, end up releasing a horde of blood thirsty zombies.
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