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Bill Pullman has 48 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 3 rank in the Top 10%, led by The Equalizer.
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The Equalizer
2014 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%Max · Included

Lost Highway
1997 · Movie · Actor
Top 9%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Independence Day
1996 · Movie · Actor
Top 11%Hulu · Included

The Equalizer 2
2018 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Max · Included

While You Were Sleeping
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 18%Disney+ · Included

Spaceballs
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 21%AMC+ · Included

McCall believes he has put his mysterious past behind him and dedicated himself to beginning a new, quiet life. But when he meets Teri, a young girl under the control of ultra-violent Russian gangsters, he can’t stand idly by – he has to help her. Armed with hidden skills that allow him to serve vengeance against anyone who would brutalize the helpless, McCall comes out of his self-imposed retirement and finds his desire for justice reawakened. If someone has a problem, if the odds are stacked against them, if they have nowhere else to turn, McCall will help. He is The Equalizer.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Denzel Washington, Marton Csokas, Chloë Grace Moretz

A tormented jazz musician finds himself lost in an enigmatic story involving murder, surveillance, gangsters, doppelgängers, and an impossible transformation inside a prison cell.
Dir. David Lynch · With Patricia Arquette, Bill Pullman, Balthazar Getty

A tenacious attorney uncovers a dark secret that connects a growing number of unexplained deaths to one of the world's largest corporations. In the process, he risks everything — his future, his family, and his own life — to expose the truth.
Dir. Todd Haynes · With Mark Ruffalo, Anne Hathaway, Tim Robbins

Strange phenomena surface around the globe. The skies ignite. Terror races through the world's major cities. As these extraordinary events unfold, it becomes increasingly clear that a force of incredible magnitude has arrived. Its mission: total annihilation over the Fourth of July weekend. The last hope to stop the destruction is an unlikely group of people united by fate and unimaginable circumstances.
Dir. Roland Emmerich · With Will Smith, Bill Pullman, Jeff Goldblum

Robert McCall, who serves an unflinching justice for the exploited and oppressed, embarks on a relentless, globe-trotting quest for vengeance when his former partner is murdered.
Dir. Antoine Fuqua · With Denzel Washington, Pedro Pascal, Ashton Sanders

A transit worker pulls commuter Peter off railway tracks after he's mugged, but—while he's in a coma—his family mistakenly thinks she's Peter's fiancée, and she doesn't correct them. Things get more complicated when she falls for his brother, who's not quite sure that she's who she claims to be.
Dir. Jon Turteltaub · With Sandra Bullock, Bill Pullman, Peter Gallagher

When the nefarious Dark Helmet hatches a plan to snatch Princess Vespa and steal her planet's air, space-bum-for-hire Lone Starr and his clueless sidekick fly to the rescue. Along the way, they meet Yogurt, who puts Lone Starr wise to the power of "The Schwartz." Can he master it in time to save the day?
Dir. Mel Brooks · With Bill Pullman, Rick Moranis, Mel Brooks

A devious femme fatale steals her husband’s drug money and hides out in a small town where she meets the perfect dupe for her next scheme.
Dir. John Dahl · With Linda Fiorentino, Peter Berg, Bill Pullman

A Harvard anthropologist is sent to Haiti to retrieve a strange powder that is said to have the power to bring human beings back from the dead. In his quest to find the miracle drug, the cynical scientist enters the rarely seen netherworld of walking zombies, blood rites and ancient curses. Based on the true life experiences of Wade Davis and filmed on location in Haiti, it's a frightening excursion into black magic and the supernatural.
Dir. Wes Craven · With Bill Pullman, Cathy Tyson, Zakes Mokae

Set in the dazzling world of the LA music scene comes the story of Grace Davis, a superstar whose talent, and ego, have reached unbelievable heights. Maggie is Grace’s overworked personal assistant who’s stuck running errands, but still aspires to her childhood dream of becoming a music producer. When Grace’s manager presents her with a choice that could alter the course of her career, Maggie and Grace come up with a plan that could change their lives forever.
Dir. Nisha Ganatra · With Dakota Johnson, Tracee Ellis Ross, Ice Cube

After the death of his mother, a young boy calls a radio station in an attempt to set his father up on a date. Across the country, an engaged woman becomes convinced that they belong together, despite their never having met. Will their paths collide despite the odds?
Dir. Nora Ephron · With Meg Ryan, Tom Hanks, Ross Malinger

The fantastical tale of a little girl who won't - or can't - follow the rules. Confounded by her clashes with the rule-obsessed world around her, Phoebe seeks enlightenment from her unconventional drama teacher, even as her brilliant but anguished mother looks to Phoebe herself for inspiration.
Dir. Daniel Barnz · With Elle Fanning, Felicity Huffman, Patricia Clarkson

In a small New York town, a haunted detective hunts for answers about perplexing crimes while wrestling with his own demons.
Dir. Derek Simonds · With Bill Pullman, Frances Fisher, Alice Kremelberg

Sam Stone hates his wife Barbara so much that he wants her dead. He's ecstatic when she's taken by a duo of kidnappers who want $500,000 ransom in exchange for her life. Fully intending to ignore every one of the kidnappers' demands in the hopes that they do him a favor and murder her for him, the two confused kidnappers have to figure out how they're going get their money, and what they're going to do with the overbearing Barbara.
Dir. Jim Abrahams, David Zucker, Jerry Zucker · With Danny DeVito, Bette Midler, Judge Reinhold

Igby Slocumb, a rebellious and sarcastic 17-year-old boy, is at war with the stifling world of old money privilege he was born into. With a schizophrenic father, a self-absorbed, distant mother, and a shark-like young Republican big brother, Igby figures there must be a better life out there -- and sets about finding it.
Dir. Burr Steers · With Kieran Culkin, Susan Sarandon, Jeff Goldblum

An intimate look at the epochal financial crisis of 2008 and the powerful men and women who decided the fate of the world's economy in a matter of a few weeks.
Dir. Curtis Hanson · With James Woods, John Heard, William Hurt

An FBI agent tracks a serial killer with the help of three of his would-be victims - all of whom have wildly different stories to tell.
Dir. Jennifer Lynch · With Julia Ormond, Bill Pullman, Pell James

A tale about a happily married couple who would like to have children. Tracy teaches infants, Andy's a college professor. Things are never the same after she is taken to hospital and operated upon by Jed, a "know all" doctor.
Dir. Harold Becker · With Alec Baldwin, Nicole Kidman, Bill Pullman

When a man is eaten alive by an unknown creature, the local Game Warden teams up with a paleontologist from New York to find the beast. Add to the mix an eccentric philanthropist with a penchant for "Crocs", and here we go! This quiet, remote lake is suddenly the focus of an intense search for a crocodile with a taste for live animals...and people!
Dir. Steve Miner · With Bill Pullman, Bridget Fonda, Oliver Platt

Paris-based wine expert Steven Spurrier heads to California in search of cheap wine that he can use for a blind taste test in the French capital. Stumbling upon the Napa Valley, the stuck-up Englishman is shocked to discover a winery turning out top-notch chardonnay. Determined to make a name for himself, he sets about getting the booze back to Paris.
Dir. Randall Miller · With Alan Rickman, Chris Pine, Bill Pullman

An American nurse living and working in Tokyo is exposed to a mysterious supernatural curse, one that locks a person in a powerful rage before claiming their life and spreading to another victim.
Dir. Takashi Shimizu · With Sarah Michelle Gellar, Jason Behr, Takako Fuji

A week in the life of the exploited, child newspaper sellers in turn-of-the-century New York. When their publisher, Joseph Pulitzer, tries to squeeze a little more profit out of their labours, they organize a strike, only to be confronted with the Pulitzer's hard-ball tactics.
Dir. Kenny Ortega · With Christian Bale, Bill Pullman, Ann-Margret

Daryl Zero is a private investigator and—along with his assistant, Steve Arlo—he solves impossible crimes and puzzles. Although Daryl's a master investigator, he doesn't know what to do with himself when he's not working; he has no social skills, writes bad music and drives Steve crazy.
Dir. Jake Kasdan · With Bill Pullman, Ben Stiller, Ryan O'Neal

The true story of the 1973 tennis match between world number one Billie Jean King and ex-champ and serial hustler Bobby Riggs.
Dir. Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris · With Emma Stone, Steve Carell, Andrea Riseborough

After the death of his son, travel writer Macon Leary seems to be sleep walking through life. Macon's wife is having similar problems. They separate, and Macon meets a strange, outgoing woman who brings him 'back down to earth', but his wife soon thinks their marriage is still worth another try.
Dir. Lawrence Kasdan · With William Hurt, Kathleen Turner, Geena Davis

A group of young adults in their twenties, who share an apartment in the city of Seattle, ponder on love and face all the challenges of adulthood.
Dir. Cameron Crowe · With Bridget Fonda, Campbell Scott, Kyra Sedgwick

Casper is a kind young ghost who peacefully haunts a mansion in Maine. When specialist James Harvey arrives to communicate with Casper and his fellow spirits, he brings along his teenage daughter, Kat. Casper quickly falls in love with Kat, but their budding relationship is complicated not only by his transparent state, but also by his troublemaking apparition uncles and their mischievous antics.
Dir. Brad Silberling · With Malachi Pearson, Christina Ricci, Bill Pullman
While drying out on the West Coast, an alcoholic hit man befriends a tart-tongued woman who might just come in handy when it's time for him to return to Buffalo and settle some old scores.
Dir. John Dahl · With Ben Kingsley, Téa Leoni, Luke Wilson

Soon after his insufferably arrogant father wins the Nobel Prize for chemistry, Barkley Michaelson is kidnapped by Thaddeus James, a young genius who claims to be Barkley's illegitimate half-brother. Motivated not so much by money as revenge, Thaddeus tries to convince Barkley to help him carry out a multimillion-dollar extortion plot against their patriarch.
Dir. Randall Miller · With Alan Rickman, Bryan Greenberg, Shawn Hatosy

Mike is an unmotivated stoner whose small-town life with his live-in girlfriend, Phoebe, is suddenly turned upside down. Unbeknownst to him, Mike is actually a highly trained, lethal sleeper agent. In the blink of an eye, as his secret past comes back to haunt him, Mike is thrust into the middle of a deadly government operation and is forced to summon his inner action-hero in order to survive.
Dir. Nima Nourizadeh · With Jesse Eisenberg, Kristen Stewart, Topher Grace
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