Peter Hyams’s Typical Vibe
Signature vibe

Highest-ranked title
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Peter Hyams has 20 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by O.J.: Made in America.
Recurring themes

Backdraft
1991
Drama · Thriller

No Escape
1994
Action · Drama

Dead Bang
1989
Action · Thriller

Point of No Return
1993
Action · Crime

Kill Me Again
1989
Drama · Action

Striking Distance
1993
Crime · Action

Gang Related
1997
Action · Crime

Best Seller
1987
Action · Crime

The Relic
1997 · Movie · Director
Top 39%MGM+ · Included

Capricorn One
1977 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 51%Prime Video · Included

Stay Tuned
1992 · Movie · Director
Top 58%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Running Scared
1986 · Movie · Director
Top 62%Prime Video · Included

Timecop
1994 · Movie · Director
Top 66%Prime Video · Included

The Presidio
1988 · Movie · Director
Top 74%Paramount+ · Included

A chronicle of the rise and fall of O.J. Simpson, whose high-profile murder trial exposed the extent of American racial tensions, revealing a fractured and divided nation.
Dir. Ezra Edelman · With O. J. Simpson, Nicole Brown Simpson, Marcia Clark

While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal computer HAL.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren
Nicolai Dalchimski, a mad KGB agent steals a notebook full of names of "sleeping" undercover KGB agents sent to the U.S. in the 1950's. These agents got their assignments under hypnosis, so they can't remember their missions until they're told a line of a Robert Frost poem. Dalchimski flees to the U.S. and starts phoning these agents who perform sabotage acts against military targets.
Dir. Don Siegel · With Charles Bronson, Lee Remick, Donald Pleasence
A homicide detective teams up with an evolutionary biologist to hunt a giant creature that is killing people in a Chicago museum.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Penelope Ann Miller, Tom Sizemore, Linda Hunt

On the sunless moon Io, Marshall William T. O’Niel goes toe-to-toe with the corrupt manager of a mining colony and his gang of roughnecks while investigating a rash of worker suicides.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Sean Connery, Peter Boyle, Frances Sternhagen

An L.A. District Attorney attempts to take an unwilling murder witness back to the United States to testify against a top-level mob boss. Frantically attempting to escape two deadly hitmen sent to silence her, they board a Vancouver-bound train only to discover that the killers are onboard with them. For the next 20 hours, as the train hurls through the beautiful but isolated Canadian wilderness, a deadly game of cat and mouse ensues in which their ability to tell friend from foe is a matter of life and death.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Gene Hackman, Anne Archer, James B. Sikking

In order to protect the reputation of the American space program, a team of NASA administrators turn the first Mars mission into a phony Mars landing. Under threat of harm to their families the astronauts play their part in the deception on a staged set in a deserted military base. But once the real ship returns to Earth and burns up on re-entry, the astronauts become liabilities. Now, with the help of a crusading reporter, they must battle a sinister conspiracy that will stop at nothing to keep the truth hidden.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Elliott Gould, James Brolin, Brenda Vaccaro

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.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With John Ritter, Pam Dawber, Jeffrey Jones

Two street-wise Chicago cops have to shake off some rust after returning from a Key West vacation to pursue a drug dealer that nearly killed them in the past.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Gregory Hines, Billy Crystal, Steven Bauer

Cynical bodyguard Jericho is hired by a man possessed by Satan, who is in search of his bride. When Jericho realizes what is happening, he must do everything he can to save the woman and the world.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Gabriel Byrne, Robin Tunney

In 2004, an officer for a security agency that regulates time travel must fend for his life against a shady politician who has a tie to his past.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Mia Sara, Ron Silver
During his long career, bounty hunter Ralph "Papa" Thorson has caught over 5,000 criminals. Now, while he is working on apprehending fugitives in Illinois, Texas and Nebraska, he himself is being hunted by a psychotic killer.
Dir. Buzz Kulik · With Steve McQueen, Eli Wallach, Kathryn Harrold

When a man's daughter is suddenly taken during a championship hockey game – with the captors demanding a billion dollars by game's end – he frantically sets a plan in motion to rescue her and abort an impending explosion before the final buzzer.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Powers Boothe, Raymond J. Barry

Jay Austin is now a civilian police detective. Colonel Caldwell was his commanding officer years before when he left the military police over a disagreement over the handling of a drunk driver. Now a series of murders that cross jurisdictions force them to work together again. That Austin is now dating Caldwell's daughter is not helping their relationship.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Sean Connery, Mark Harmon, Meg Ryan

Remake of a 1956 Fritz Lang film in which a novelist's investigation of a dirty district attorney leads to a setup within the courtroom.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Jesse Metcalfe, Amber Tamblyn, Michael Douglas

As violence escalates in Los Angeles and heinous murders are committed, Steven Hardin, a young judge of the California Supreme Court, must struggle with his tortured conscience and growing despair as he watches helplessly as the ruthless criminals brought before his court go free because clever lawyers find obscure loopholes in the law.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Michael Douglas, Hal Holbrook, Yaphet Kotto
After a major shipment of drugs goes missing on the US-Canadian border, forest ranger and former Navy SEAL Henry is plunged into survival mode when the drug cartel forces him to help retrieve the downed package. Trapped in the wilderness with no communication to the outside world, Henry finds himself face to face with Clay, a man with a personal vendetta against Henry who has returned for retribution. Now, the two mortal enemies must make a choice: put aside their past and work together, or die alone at the hands of the drug runners, a ruthless gang who will stop at nothing to retrieve their lost cargo.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Jean-Claude Van Damme, Tom Everett Scott, Orlando Jones
Margaret is a nurse in England during WW2, and married to a secret agent. Things get complicated when she falls for David, an American pilot.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Harrison Ford, Lesley-Anne Down, Christopher Plummer
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Justin Chambers, Catherine Deneuve, Mena Suvari
When a hunter sent back to the prehistoric era runs off the path he must not leave, he causes a chain reaction that alters history in disastrous ways.
Dir. Peter Hyams · With Edward Burns, Catherine McCormack, Ben Kingsley