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...

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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

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

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

5.3

6K votes

5.3

6K votes

The Thief Who Came to Dinner

1973 · Movie · 102 min. · United States

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