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Walter Hill has 28 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Aliens.
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Crossroads
1986 · Movie · Director
Top 21%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Undisputed
2002 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 37%Paramount+ · Included

Brewster's Millions
1985 · Movie · Director
Top 40%AMC+ · Included

Hard Times
1975 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 48%Tubi · Free w/ ads

The Long Riders
1980 · Movie · Director
Top 50%Prime Video · Included

48 Hrs.
1982 · Movie · Director · Writer
Top 52%Netflix · Included
Ripley, the sole survivor of the Nostromo's deadly encounter with the monstrous Alien, returns to Earth after drifting through space in hypersleep for 57 years. Although her story is initially met with skepticism, she agrees to accompany a team of Colonial Marines back to LV-426.
Dir. James Cameron · With Sigourney Weaver, Carrie Henn, Michael Biehn

Prominent gang leader Cyrus calls a meeting of New York's gangs to set aside their turf wars and take over the city. At the meeting, a rival leader kills Cyrus, but a Coney Island gang called the Warriors is wrongly blamed for Cyrus' death. Before you know it, the cops and every gangbanger in town is hot on the Warriors' trail.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Michael Beck, James Remar, David Patrick Kelly

A recently released ex-convict and his loyal wife go on the run after a heist goes wrong.
Dir. Sam Peckinpah · With Steve McQueen, Ali MacGraw, Ben Johnson

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 to mirror the Vietnam experience.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Keith Carradine, Powers Boothe, Fred Ward

Raven Shaddock and his gang of merciless biker friends kidnap rock singer Ellen Aim. Ellen's former lover, soldier-for-hire Tom Cody, happens to be passing through town on a visit. In an attempt to save his star act, Ellen's manager hires Tom to rescue her. Along with a former soldier, they battle through dangerous cityscapes, determined to get Ellen back.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Michael Paré, Diane Lane, Rick Moranis

A wanna-be blues guitar virtuoso seeks a long-lost song by legendary musician, Robert Johnson.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Ralph Macchio, Joe Seneca, Jami Gertz

The Driver specializes in driving getaway cars for robberies. His exceptional talent has prevented him from being caught yet. After another successful flight from the police a self-assured detective makes it his primary goal to catch the Driver. He promises pardons to a gang if they help to convict him in a set-up robbery. The Driver seeks help from The Player to mislead the detective.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Ryan O'Neal, Bruce Dern, Isabelle Adjani

Monroe Hutchens is the heavyweight champion of Sweetwater, a maximum security prison. He was convicted to a life sentence due to a passionate crime. Iceman Chambers is the heavyweight champion, who lost his title due to a rape conviction to ten years in Sweetwater. When these two giants collide in the same prison, they fight against each other disputing who is the real champion.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Wesley Snipes, Ving Rhames, Peter Falk

Monty Brewster, an aging minor-league baseball player, stands to inherit $300 million if he can successfully spend $30 million in 30 days without anything to show for it, and without telling anyone what he's up to... A task that's a lot harder than it sounds!
Dir. Walter Hill · With Richard Pryor, John Candy, Lonette McKee
After escaping with Newt and Hicks from the alien planet, Ripley crash lands on Fiorina 161, a prison planet and host to a correctional facility. Unfortunately, although Newt and Hicks do not survive the crash, a more unwelcome visitor does. The prison does not allow weapons of any kind, and with aid being a long time away, the prisoners must simply survive in any way they can.
Dir. David Fincher · With Sigourney Weaver, Charles S. Dutton, Charles Dance

Harper is brought to Louisiana to investigate an attempted blackmail scheme. He soon finds out that it involves an old flame of his and her daughter. He eventually finds himself caught in a power struggle between the matriarch of the family and a greedy oil baron, who wants their property. Poor Harper! Things are not as straight-forward as they initially appeared.
Dir. Stuart Rosenberg · With Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Anthony Franciosa

In the depression, Chaney, a strong silent streetfighter, joins with Speed, a promoter of no-holds-barred street boxing bouts. They go to New Orleans where Speed borrows money to set up fights for Chaney, but Speed gambles away any winnings.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Charles Bronson, James Coburn, Jill Ireland

Two Arkansas firemen, Vince and Don, get hold of a map that leads to a cache of stolen gold in an abandoned factory in East St. Louis. What they don't know is that the factory is on the turf of a local gang, who come by to execute one of their enemies. Vince sees the shooting, the gang spots Vince, and extended mayhem ensues. As Vince and Don try to escape, gang leader King James argues with his subordinate Savon about how to get rid of the trespassers.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Bill Paxton, Ice-T, William Sadler

The origins, exploits and the ultimate fate of the James gang is told in a sympathetic portrayal of the bank robbers made up of brothers who begin their legendary bank raids because of revenge.
Dir. Walter Hill · With David Carradine, Keith Carradine, Robert Carradine

Lean, mean Texas Ranger Jack Benteen locks horns with a former friend, Cash Bailey, now a ruthless drug kingpin. Though they're on opposite sides of the law, they share a love interest in the sensual Sarita. When a crew of rogue soldiers descends upon the border town for an off-the-books mission, all roads lead to a bloody, to-the-death showdown, as loyalties shift and the lines between good and evil are blurred.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Powers Boothe, Michael Ironside

A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole
A member of British Intelligence assumes a fictitious criminal identity and allows himself to be caught, imprisoned, and freed in order to infiltrate a spy organization and expose a traitor; only, someone finds him out and exposes him to the gang...
Dir. John Huston · With Paul Newman, Dominique Sanda, James Mason

A tough Russian policeman is forced to partner up with a cocky Chicago police detective when he is sent to Chicago to apprehend a Georgian drug lord who killed his partner and fled the country.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Jim Belushi, Peter Boyle

A career criminal who has been deformed since birth is given a new face by a kindly doctor and paroled from prison. It appears that he has gone straight, but he is really planning his revenge on the man who killed his mentor and sent him to prison.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Mickey Rourke, Ellen Barkin, Morgan Freeman

For the past four years, San Francisco cop Jack Cates has been after an unidentified drug kingpin who calls himself the Ice Man. Jack finds a picture that proves that the Ice Man has put a price on the head of Reggie Hammond, who is scheduled to be released from prison on the next day.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Eddie Murphy, Nick Nolte, Brion James

The Apache Indians have reluctantly agreed to settle on a US Government approved reservation. Not all the Apaches are able to adapt to the life of corn farmers. One in particular, Geronimo, is restless. Pushed over the edge by broken promises and necessary actions by the government, Geronimo and thirty or so other warriors form an attack team which humiliates the government by evading capture, while reclaiming what is rightfully theirs.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Jason Patric, Gene Hackman, Robert Duvall

John Smith is a mysterious stranger who is drawn into a vicious war between two Prohibition-era gangs. In a dangerous game, he switches allegiances from one to another, offering his services to the highest bidder. As the death toll mounts, Smith takes the law into his own hands in a deadly race to stay alive.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Bruce Willis, Bruce Dern, William Sanderson

An ex-con and his devoted wife must flee from danger when a heist doesn't go as planned.
Dir. Roger Donaldson · With Alec Baldwin, Kim Basinger, Michael Madsen

After watching their respective partners die, a cop and a hitman form an alliance in order to bring down their common enemy.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Sylvester Stallone, Sung Kang, Sarah Shahi

Ace assassin Frank Kitchen is double crossed by gangsters and falls into the hands of rogue surgeon known as The Doctor who turns him into a woman. The hitman, now a hitwoman, sets out for revenge, aided by a nurse named Johnnie who also has secrets.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Michelle Rodriguez, Sigourney Weaver, Tony Shalhoub
In 1897, veteran bounty hunter Max Borlund is deep into Mexico where he encounters professional gambler and outlaw Joe Cribbens — a sworn enemy he sent to prison years before. Max is on a mission to find and return Rachel Kidd, the wife of a wealthy businessman, who as the story is told to Max, has been abducted by Buffalo Soldier Elijah Jones. Max is ultimately faced with a showdown to save honor.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Christoph Waltz, Willem Dafoe, Rachel Brosnahan

Biopic about famous gunslinger Wild Bill Hickock. The early career of legendary lawman is telescoped and culminates in his relocation in Deadwood and a reunion with Calamity Jane.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Jeff Bridges, Ellen Barkin, John Hurt
Set in the 22nd century, when a battered salvage ship sends out a distress signal, the seasoned crew of the rescue hospital ship Nova-17 responds. What they find is a black hole--that threatens to destroy both ships--and a mysterious survivor whose body quickly mutates into a monstrous and deadly form.
Dir. Walter Hill · With James Spader, Angela Bassett, Robert Forster