Movies starring Bill Paxton

Biography: 
Bill moved to Los Angeles at 18 where he found work in the film industry as a set dresser for Roger Corman's New World Pictures. He made his film debut in the Corman film "The Crazy Mama (1975)" directed by Jonathan Demme. Moving to New York, he studied acting under Stella Adler at New York University. After landing a small role in "Stripes (1981)", Bill found steady work in low-budget films and T ...  show all 

Aliens (1986)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Horror | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: UK | USA
Actors: Sigourney Weaver | Carrie Henn | Michael Biehn | Lance Henriksen | Paul Reiser | Bill Paxton | William Hope | Jenette Goldstein | Al Matthews | Mark Rolston | Ricco Ross | Colette Hiller | Daniel Kash | Cynthia Dale Scott | Tip Tipping
Directors: James Cameron
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More than a half-century after the events of ‘Alien’, Warrant Officer Ripley - the sole survivor of the Nostromo - is discovered adrift in the shuttle she used to escape. By now, the Company - Ripley’s employer - has colonized the planet where the alien was found. Intent on covering up its illegal actions of years before, the Company strips Ripley of her flight officer’s license. But when transmissions from the colony stop without warning, she is called into action again - this time with a group of Space Marines. Now the alien menace is hundreds of times larger, more insidious, and all but invincible. The sole survivor of the Nostromo re-enters a world of sudden, unspeakable horror - one that attacks without warning again and again and again.

The Terminator (1984)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Sci-Fi | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Arnold Schwarzenegger | Michael Bien | Linda Hamilton | Paul Winfield | Lance Henriksen | Bess Motta | Earl Boen | Rick Rossovich | Dick Miller | Shawn Schepps | Franco Columbu | Bill Paxton | Brad Rearden | Brian Thompson
Directors: James Cameron
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In the future, Skynet, a computer system fights a losing war against the humans who built it and who it nearly exterminated. Just before being destroyed, Skynet sends a Terminator back in time to kill Sarah, the mother to be of John Connor, the Leader of the human resistance. The terminator can pass for human, is nearly indestructible, and has only one mission, killing Sarah Connor. One soldier is sent back to protect her from the killing machine. He must find Sarah before the Terminator can carry out it’s mission.

True Lies (1994)

Friday, January 18th, 2008
Genres: Action | Adventure | Comedy | Romance | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Charlton Heston | Arnold Schwarzenegger | Jamie Lee Curtis | Tom Arnold | Bill Paxton | Tia Carrere | Art Malik | Eliza Dushku | Grant Heslov | Marshall Manesh | Dieter Rauter | Jane Morris | Katsy Chappell | Crystina Wyler | Ofer Samra
Directors: James Cameron | James Allen
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Special agent Harry Tasker gets out of the water outside a heavily guarded mansion, takes off his wetsuit, and there is a dinner jacket underneath. Harry strolls into a swanky party. Harry meets with Juno Skinner, steals some computer files, and escapes in a blaze of gunfire. He’s picked up by his partner, Albert “Gib” Gibson, and they return to the United States. Harry goes home to his wife Helen. Helen doesn’t know what Harry does because he pretends to be a computer salesman. Their 14-year-old daughter Dana is a sullen teenager, and Helen is so bored by the routine of her life that she’s on the verge of having an affair with used-car salesman Simon, who claims to be a spy. Harry is hot on the trail of a group of terrorists led by Salim Abu Aziz. Aziz and his men are smuggling nuclear weapons into the USA in pieces of Persian art, and Aziz plans to hold the country hostage in the name of the Crimson Jihad. Harry’s also out to save his marriage when he discovers Helen with Simon, who still claims to be a spy. Harry uses the Agency’s resources to give Helen a taste of the real thing. Harry blackmails Helen into seducing an enemy agent — Harry himself — in a hotel room, but their tryst is interrupted by Aziz’s men, who kidnap them and take them to one of the Florida Keys, where they’re preparing to detonate their nuclear bomb. Harry escapes and rescues Helen, and then they discover that Aziz has gone to Miami and kidnapped Dana. Harry uses a harrier jet to get to Miami, where he sets out to rescue Dana.

Tombstone (1993)

Monday, May 7th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Romance | Western
Countries: USA
Actors: Kurt Russell | Val Kilmer | Sam Elliott | Bill Paxton | Powers Boothe | Michael Biehn | Charlton Heston | Jason Priestley | Jon Tenney | Stephen Lang | Thomas Haden Church | Dana Delany | Paula Malcomson | Lisa Collins | Dana Wheeler-Nicholson
Directors: George P. Cosmatos
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After success cleaning up Dodge City, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona, and wishes to get rich in obscurity. He meets his brothers there, as well as his old friend Doc Holliday. A band of outlaws that call themselves The Cowboys are causing problems in the region with various acts of random violence, and inevitably come into confrontation with Holliday and the Earps, which leads to a shoot-out at the OK Corral.

Mighty Joe Young (1998)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Adventure | Family | Fantasy | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Bill Paxton | Charlize Theron | Rade Serbedzija | Regina King | Peter Firth | Naveen Andrews | David Paymer | Robert Wisdom | Christian Clemenson | Geoffrey Blake | Lawrence Pressman | Linda Purl | Mika Boorem | Cory Buck | Liz Georges
Directors: Ron Underwood
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The movie opens with poachers attacking a group of gorillas. Animal preservationists fight the poachers, which ends with one gorilla and a young girl’s mother dead. In the melee, a particularly large gorilla baby attacks the head hunter and bites his thumb and forefinger off. The films immediately passes into the future and the young girl has grown up to be Charlize Theron and the gorilla has grown to be 15′ tall and weighs 2000 pounds. The two are best friends who play together. When poachers again appear, a representative (Bill Paxton) of a California wildlife refuge convinces her to transfer the gorilla she has named Joe Young to the refuge. Of course, once there the former hunter shows up seeking revenge. Terrorizing the gorilla without letting his human handlers know, the gorilla goes on a rampage across Los Angeles.

U-571 (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | War
Countries: France | USA
Actors: Matthew McConaughey | Bill Paxton | Harvey Keitel | Jon Bon Jovi | David Keith | Thomas Kretschmann | Jake Weber | Jack Noseworthy | Tom Guiry | Will Estes | Terrence 'T.C.' Carson | Erik Palladino | Dave Power | Derk Cheetwood | Matthew Settle
Directors: Jonathan Mostow
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In the midst of World War II, the battle below the seas rages. The Nazi’s have the upper edge as the Allies are unable to crack their war codes. That is, until a wrecked U-boat sends out an SOS signal, and the Allies realise this is their chance to seize the ‘enigma coding machine’. But masquerading as Nazi’s and taking over the U-boat is the smallest of their problems. The action really begins when they get stranded on the U-boat.

Vertical Limit (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Adventure | Thriller
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Chris O'Donnell | Robin Tunney | Scott Glenn | Izabella Scorupco | Bill Paxton | Nicholas Lea | Alexander Siddig | Robert Taylor | Temuera Morrison | Stuart Wilson | Augie Davis | Steve Le Marquand | Ben Mendelsohn | Roshan Seth | Alejandro Valdes-Rochin
Directors: Martin Campbell
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A high-adrenaline tale of young climber Peter Garrett (Chris O’Donnell), who must launch a treacherous and extraordinary rescue effort up K2, the world’s second highest peak. Confronting both his own limitations and the awesome power of nature’s uncontrollable elements, Peter risks his life to save his sister, Annie (Robin Tunney), and her summit team (Bill Paxton and Nicholas Lea) in a race against time. The team is trapped in an icy grave at 26,000 feet - a death zone above the vertical limit of endurance where the human body cannot survive for long. Every second counts as Peter enlists the help of a crew of fellow climbers, including eccentric, reclusive mountain man Montgomery Wick (Scott Glenn), to ascend the chilling might of the world’s most feared peak to save her.

Simple Plan, A (1998)

Saturday, March 17th, 2007
Genres: Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: France | Germany | Japan | UK | USA
Actors: Bridget Fonda | Billy Bob Thornton | Brent Briscoe | Jack Walsh | Chelcie Ross | Becky Ann Baker | Gary Cole | Bob Davis | Peter Syvertsen | Tom Carey | Bill Paxton | Marie Mathay | Paul Magers | Joan Steffand
Directors: Sam Raimi
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When Hank, Jacob and Lou find $4.4 million inside a crashed plane in a nature preserve, they quickly come up with the plan to keep the money safe until the plane has been found by others and the dust has settled. But Jacob, Hank’s brother, and Lou, a friend, do not behave the way they decided to. Lou, constantly in financial debt, wants his share soon and Jacob wishes to renovate their parents’ farm. The trusty atmosphere between the unequal partners dissolves slowly, and intrigues are spun. Also, accidents start happening and when an FBI agent comes into town, looking for a crashed plane, Hank and his partners get into very deep water…

Twister (1996)

Thursday, February 15th, 2007
Genres: Action | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Helen Hunt | Bill Paxton | Cary Elwes | Jami Gertz | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Lois Smith | Alan Ruck | Sean Whalen | Scott Thomson | Todd Field | Joey Slotnick | Wendle Josepher | Jeremy Davies | Zach Grenier | Gregory Sporleder
Directors: Jan de Bont
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TV weatherman Bill Harding is trying to get his tornado-hunter wife, Jo, to sign divorce papers so he can marry his girlfriend Melissa. But Mother Nature, in the form of a series of intense storms sweeping across Oklahoma, has other plans. Soon the three have joined the team of stormchasers as they attempt to insert a revolutionary measuring device into the very heart of several extremely violent tornados.

The Last Supper (1995)

Wednesday, February 14th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Cameron Diaz | Ron Eldard | Annabeth Gish | Jonathan Penner | Courtney B. Vance | Bill Paxton | Nora Dunn | Ron Perlman | Dan Rosen | Amber Taylor | Matt Cooper | Charles Durning | Mark Harmon | Gil Segel | Rachel Chagall
Directors: Stacy Title
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When Pete (Eldard), one of five friends who share an Iowa house, invites Zack (Paxton), a man who gave him a lift home in for supper, the night turns suddenly sour when Zack irrationally attacks Pete, but is killed by the other friends. After this episode, the friends suggest that, having ridden the world of one bad person, they should continue to do the same thing every Sunday night at supper.