Val Kilmer’s Typical Vibe
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Val Kilmer has 46 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Heat.
Recurring themes

The Business
2005
Drama · Action

Playing God
1997
Drama · Action

Wrong Turn at Tahoe
2009
Action · Crime

Backdraft
1991
Drama · Thriller

Jack Reacher
2012
Crime · Drama

Patriot Games
1992
Drama · Action

Mercury Rising
1998
Action · Crime

Beyond the Law
1993
Action · Crime

Top Secret!
1984 · Movie · Actor
Top 15%Paramount+ · Included

Willow
1988 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Disney+ · Included

Felon
2008 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Real Genius
1985 · Movie · Actor
Top 35%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Doors
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 36%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Val
2021 · Movie · Actor
Top 44%Prime Video · Included

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer
Clarence marries hooker Alabama, steals cocaine from her pimp, and tries to sell it in Hollywood, while the owners of the coke try to reclaim it.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Christian Slater, Patricia Arquette, Dennis Hopper

Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp, now a weary gunfighter, joins his brothers Morgan and Virgil to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. But Earp is forced to don a badge again and get help from his notorious pal Doc Holliday when a gang of renegade brigands and rustlers begins terrorizing the town.
Dir. George P. Cosmatos · With Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Michael Biehn
For Lieutenant Pete 'Maverick' Mitchell and his friend and co-pilot Nick 'Goose' Bradshaw, being accepted into an elite training school for fighter pilots is a dream come true. But a tragedy, as well as personal demons, will threaten Pete's dreams of becoming an ace pilot.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Tom Cruise, Kelly McGillis, Val Kilmer

The strong bond between two Royal Egyptian brothers is challenged when their chosen responsibilities set them at odds, with extraordinary consequences.
Dir. Brenda Chapman, Steve Hickner, Simon Wells · With Val Kilmer, Ralph Fiennes, Michelle Pfeiffer

A petty thief posing as an actor is brought to Los Angeles for an unlikely audition and finds himself in the middle of a murder investigation along with his high school dream girl and a detective who's been training him for his upcoming role...
Dir. Shane Black · With Robert Downey Jr., Val Kilmer, Michelle Monaghan

Called in to recover evidence in the aftermath of a horrific explosion on a New Orleans ferry, Federal agent Doug Carlin gets pulled away from the scene and taken to a top-secret government lab that uses a time-shifting surveillance device to help prevent crime.
Dir. Tony Scott · With Denzel Washington, Paula Patton, Val Kilmer

Popular and dashing American singer Nick Rivers travels to East Germany to perform in a music festival. When he loses his heart to the gorgeous Hillary Flammond, he finds himself caught up in an underground resistance movement. Rivers joins forces with Agent Cedric and Flammond to attempt the rescue of her father, Dr. Paul, from the Germans, who have captured the scientist in hopes of coercing him into building a new naval mine.
Dir. Jim Abrahams, Jerry Zucker, David Zucker · With Val Kilmer, Lucy Gutteridge, Peter Cushing

The evil Queen Bavmorda hunts the newborn princess Elora Danan, a child prophesied to bring about her downfall. When the royal infant is found by Willow, a timid farmer and aspiring sorcerer, he's entrusted with delivering her from evil.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Warwick Davis, Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley

A family man convicted of killing an intruder must cope with life afterward in the violent penal system.
Dir. Ric Roman Waugh · With Stephen Dorff, Val Kilmer, Harold Perrineau

Over the summer of 1976, thirty-six bombs detonate in the heart of Cleveland while a turf war raged between Irish mobster Danny Greene and the Italian mafia. Based on a true story, Kill the Irishman chronicles Greene's heroic rise from a tough Cleveland neighborhood to become an enforcer in the local mob.
Dir. Jonathan Hensleigh · With Ray Stevenson, Vincent D'Onofrio, Val Kilmer

Sir Robert Beaumont is behind schedule on a railroad in Africa. Enlisting noted engineer John Henry Patterson to right the ship, Beaumont expects results. Everything seems great until the crew discovers the mutilated corpse of the project's foreman, seemingly killed by a lion. After several more attacks, Patterson calls in famed hunter Charles Remington, who has finally met his match in the bloodthirsty lions.
Dir. Stephen Hopkins · With Michael Douglas, Val Kilmer, Tom Wilkinson

When teenage geniuses Mitch Taylor and Chris Knight, working on an advanced laser project, learn that the military wants to use it as a weapon, they decide to thwart the plan.
Dir. Martha Coolidge · With Val Kilmer, Gabriel Jarret, Michelle Meyrink

The story of the famous and influential 1960s rock band and its lead singer and composer, Jim Morrison.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Val Kilmer, Meg Ryan, Kyle MacLachlan
On the heels of NBC's hit movie, the iconic 1980s television classic comes roaring back to life as a reinvented, updated and super-charged action series showcasing the new KITT (Knight Industries Three Thousand). Absolutely the coolest car ever created, KITT is equipped with an "AI" (artificial intelligence) that is capable of hacking almost any system. Its weapons systems match that of a jet fighter, and its body is capable of actually transforming into other vehicles and using sophisticated holographic imagery to elude villains.
Dir. Glen A. Larson · With Justin Bruening, Deanna Russo, Bruce Davison

For over 40 years Val Kilmer, one of Hollywood’s most mercurial and/or misunderstood actors has been documenting his own life and craft through film and video. He has amassed thousands of hours of footage, from 16mm home movies made with his brothers, to time spent in iconic roles for blockbuster movies like Top Gun, The Doors, Tombstone, and Batman Forever. This raw, wildly original and unflinching documentary reveals a life lived to extremes and a heart-filled, sometimes hilarious look at what it means to be an artist and a complex man.
Dir. Leo Scott, Ting Poo · With Val Kilmer, Jack Kilmer, Mercedes Kilmer

When rancher and single mother of two Maggie Gilkeson sees her teenage daughter, Lily, kidnapped by Apache rebels, she reluctantly accepts the help of her estranged father, Samuel, in tracking down the kidnappers. Along the way, the two must learn to reconcile the past and work together if they are going to have any hope of getting Lily back before she is taken over the border and forced to become a prostitute.
Dir. Ron Howard · With Cate Blanchett, Tommy Lee Jones, Evan Rachel Wood

After the murder of his beloved wife, a man in search of redemption is set adrift in a world where nothing is as it seems. On his journey, he befriends slacker Jimmy "The Finn", becomes involved in rescuing his neighbor Colette from her own demons, and gets entangled in a web of deceit full of unexpected twists and turns.
Dir. D.J. Caruso · With Val Kilmer, Vincent D'Onofrio, Adam Goldberg

In August of 1949, Life Magazine ran a banner headline that begged the question: "Jackson Pollock: Is he the greatest living painter in the United States?" The film is a look back into the life of an extraordinary man, a man who has fittingly been called "an artist dedicated to concealment, a celebrity who nobody knew." As he struggled with self-doubt, engaging in a lonely tug-of-war between needing to express himself and wanting to shut the world out, Pollock began a downward spiral.
Dir. Ed Harris · With Ed Harris, Marcia Gay Harden, Tom Bower

Trainees in the FBI's psychological profiling program must put their training into practice when they discover a killer in their midst. Based very loosely on Agatha Christie's And Then There Were None.
Dir. Renny Harlin · With Kathryn Morris, Jonny Lee Miller, LL Cool J

Simon Templar (The Saint), is a thief for hire, whose latest job to steal the secret process for cold fusion puts him at odds with a traitor bent on toppling the Russian government, as well as the woman who holds its secret.
Dir. Phillip Noyce · With Val Kilmer, Elisabeth Shue, Rade Šerbedžija
At a remote Arctic research station, four ecology students discover the real horror of global warming is not the melting ice, but what's frozen within it. A prehistoric parasite is released from the carcass of a Woolly Mammoth upon the unsuspecting students who are forced to quarantine and make necessary sacrifices, or risk infecting the rest of the world.
Dir. Mark A. Lewis · With Val Kilmer, Martha MacIsaac, Aaron Ashmore
Left for dead in the remote Southwest, Frank is found clinging to life and in a state of amnesia. As he recovers, ominous memories begin to flash back...
Dir. Michael Haussman · With Val Kilmer, Neve Campbell, Sam Shepard

A young mixed-blood FBI agent is assigned to work with a cynical veteran investigator on a murder on a poverty-stricken Sioux reservation.
Dir. Michael Apted · With Val Kilmer, Sam Shepard, Graham Greene

U.S. government agent Scott is assigned to rescue the daughter of a high-ranking government official. As willing as he is to bend the rules to get things done, though, Scott is shocked to find that others are willing to go even further to protect a political career.
Dir. David Mamet · With Val Kilmer, Derek Luke, William H. Macy
On a dark Christmas Eve in a small town, the lone Sheriffs on the night shift encounter a mysterious man who goes by the name of Mr. Nobody. As the night progresses, the Sheriffs discover that this isn't just a nobody, but a vengeful killer whose past threatens to haunt them all.
Dir. Michael Oblowitz · With John Cassini, Val Kilmer, Camille Sullivan
Karen McCoy is released from prison with nothing but the clothes on her back. Before being incarcerated, Karen was the bank robber of her time, but now she wishes for nothing more than to settle down and start a new life. Unfortunately, between a dirty parole officer, old business partners, and an idiot ex, she will have to do the unthinkable in order to save her son.
Dir. Russell Mulcahy · With Kim Basinger, Val Kilmer, Terence Stamp

After Faye and her psychotic boyfriend, Vince, successfully rob a mob courier, Faye decides to abscond with the loot. She heads to Reno, where she hires feckless private investigator Jack Andrews to help fake her death. He pulls the scheme off and sets up Faye with a new identity, only to have her skip out on him without paying. Jack follows her to Vegas and learns he's not the only one after her. Vince has discovered that she's still alive.
Dir. John Dahl · With Val Kilmer, Joanne Whalley, Michael Madsen

On the afternoon of July 1, 1981, Los Angeles police responded to a distress call on Wonderland Avenue and discovered a grisly quadruple homicide. The police investigation that followed uncovered two versions of the events leading up to the brutal murders - both involving legendary porn actor John Holmes.
Dir. James Cox · With Val Kilmer, Kate Bosworth, Dylan McDermott
Astronauts search for solutions to save a dying Earth by searching on Mars, only to have the mission go terribly awry.
Dir. Antony Hoffman · With Val Kilmer, Carrie-Anne Moss, Benjamin Bratt
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