Screenplay: Walter Hill
Top movies, series, and documentaries with a screenplay by Walter Hill. Explore the titles that showcase an exceptional writing.
Aliens
1986 · Movie · 150 min. · United States
Direction James Cameron
Cast Sigourney Weaver · Paul Reiser · Lance Henriksen · Michael Biehn
Plot The only survivor of the Nostromo, Ripley is discovered in deep sleep half a century later by a salvage ship. When she is taken back to Earth, she learns that...
7.4
83K votes
7.4
83K votes
The Getaway
1972 · Movie · 122 min. · United States
Direction Sam Peckinpah
Cast Steve McQueen · Ali MacGraw · Ben Johnson · Sally Struthers
Plot Doc McCoy (Steve McQueen) has been granted parole. The catch is that Sheriff Beynon expects a small favor from McCoy for his generosity: robbing another bank! Beynon does not really...
7.4
10K votes
7.4
10K votes
The Warriors
1979 · Movie · 94 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Michael Beck · David Harris · James Remar · Deborah Van Valkenburgh
Plot Walter Hill's hip, super-stylized action film unfurls in a dystopian near-future, when various gangs control New York City. Each gang sports a unique moniker ('The Warriors,' 'The Baseball Furies,' 'The...
7.0
16K votes
7.0
16K votes
The Driver
1978 · Movie · 90 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Ryan O'Neal · Bruce Dern · Isabelle Adjani · Ronee Blakley
Plot Walter Hill's stripped down neo-noir features a protagonist who makes the laconic boxer of the director's similar Hard Times (1974) seem logorrheic by comparison. The film's tone is set in...
6.6
2K votes
6.6
2K votes
Tales from the Crypt (TV Series)
1989 · Series · 30 min. · United States
Direction Steven Dodd · Russell Mulcahy · Elliot Silverstein · Robert Zemeckis
Cast John Kassir · Roy Brocksmith · Miguel Ferrer · Larry Drake
Plot TV Series (1989-1996). 7 Seasons. 93 Episodes. Based on the legendary and gruesome 1950's EC Comics from publisher, William M. Gaines, this horror anthology featured stories of murder, greed, lust,...
6.5
6K votes
6.5
6K votes
The Mackintosh Man
1973 · Movie · 98 min. · United Kingdom
Direction John Huston
Cast Paul Newman · Dominique Sanda · James Mason · Harry Andrews
Plot Joseph Rearden takes the fall for a robbery and winds up in the Scrubs. From there he escapes in the company of a convicted spy and is taken to a...
6.5
4K votes
6.5
4K votes
Southern Comfort
1981 · Movie · 103 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Keith Carradine · Powers Boothe · Fred Ward · Peter Coyote
Plot 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...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
The Drowning Pool
1975 · Movie · 108 min. · United States
Direction Stuart Rosenberg
Cast Paul Newman · Anthony Franciosa · Joanne Woodward · Richard Jaeckel
6.4
1K votes
6.4
1K votes
Hard Times
1975 · Movie · 97 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Charles Bronson · James Coburn · Jill Ireland · Strother Martin
Plot 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...
6.4
2K votes
6.4
2K votes
Streets of Fire
1984 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Michael Paré · Diane Lane · Rick Moranis · Willem Dafoe
Plot Rock and Roll singer is taken captive by a motorcycle gang in a strange world that seems to be a cross of the 1950's and the present or future. Her...
6.3
8K votes
6.3
8K votes
Tales from the Crypt: The Man Who Was Death (TV)
1989 · Movie · 26 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast William Sadler · J.W. Smith · Roy Brocksmith · David Wohl
Plot Niles Talbot works as the executioner at a state prison, throwing the switch to put convicts to death in the electric chair. He's an easygoing, genial sort of fellow, commenting...
6.1
207 votes
6.1
207 votes
48 Hrs.
1982 · Movie · 96 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Nick Nolte · Eddie Murphy · Annette O'Toole · Frank McRae
Plot Oddball cop and tough guy, Jack Cates is the only survivor of a cop shooting and in hunting down the murderer collects Reggie Hammond from jail for 48 hours. Hammond...
6.0
9K votes
6.0
9K votes
Alien³
1992 · Movie · 115 min. · United States
Direction David Fincher
Cast Sigourney Weaver · Charles S. Dutton · Charles Dance · Paul McGann
Plot Despite the efforts of Ripley and the space marines in the film Aliens, an embryonic alien infiltrates the starship. It accidentally triggers the ship's emergency systems, dropping the escape capsule...
5.9
55K votes
5.9
55K votes
Last Man Standing
1996 · Movie · 101 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Bruce Willis · Christopher Walken · Bruce Dern · William Sanderson
Plot John Smith is an amoral gunslinger in the days of Prohibition. On the lam from his latest (unspecified) exploits, he happens upon the town of Jericho, Texas. Actually, calling Jericho...
5.9
7K votes
5.9
7K votes
Wild Bill
1995 · Movie · 93 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Jeff Bridges · Ellen Barkin · John Hurt · Diane Lane
5.6
1K votes
5.6
1K votes
Tales from the Crypt: Cutting Cards (TV)
1990 · Movie · 20 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Lance Henriksen · Kevin Tighe · John Kassir · Roy Brocksmith
Plot Reno and Sam are a pair of hardcore gamblers who don't play for fun, who challenge each other in a sample game of cards and the end result could be...
5.6
109 votes
5.6
109 votes
Undisputed
2002 · Movie · 95 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Wesley Snipes · Ving Rhames · Peter Falk · Wes Studi
5.3
6K votes
5.3
6K votes
The Thief Who Came to Dinner
1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United States
Direction Bud Yorkin
Cast Ryan O'Neal · Jacqueline Bisset · Warren Oates · Jill Clayburgh
5.3
254 votes
5.3
254 votes
Tales from the Crypt: Deadline (TV)
1991 · Movie · 27 min. · United States
Direction Walter Hill
Cast Richard Jordan · Jon Polito · Richard Herd · John Capodice
Plot An alcoholic reporter is inspired by a beautiful woman to find a good murder case no matter what.
5.2
56 votes
5.2
56 votes
Hickey & Boggs
1972 · Movie · 111 min. · United States
Direction Robert Culp
Cast Bill Cosby · Robert Culp · Ta-Ronce Allen · Rosalind Cash
Plot Al Hickey (Bill Cosby) and Frank Boggs (Robert Culp) are tired, broke, alcoholic detectives approached by a lawyer (Lou Frizzell) to find his girlfriend who has gone missing. The 'girlfriend'...
5.2
55 votes
5.2
55 votes