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The 20 Best Bruce Willis Movies of All Time To Watch

From Pulp Fiction to The Last Boy Scout, you know his name Bruce Willis. See a detailed Bruce Willis timeline, with an inside look at his movies.

by Mohit Pathria
Wednesday, 23 December 2020, 11:13 IST
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A Little Bit About Bruce Willis

Well known for his hardcore character in blockbuster action films, Bruce Willis is one of the most versatile movie stars of Hollywood. Willis started his career with some minor appearances in various T.V. shows and commercials until he landed a lead role in a rom-com television series called “Moonlighting” in 1985 but got his big break after starring as “John McClane” in the infamous film franchise “Die Hard.” After featuring in more than 70 films and 10 T.V. series, Bruce Willis has reached a net worth of $250 million.

Without further adieu, let’s get started on this action trip and discover Bruce Willis top 20 films of all time.

1. Die Hard (1988)

Die Hard

  • Director: John McTiernan
  • Writer: Roderick Thorp, Jeb Stuart, Steven E. de Souza
  • Cast: Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Alexander Godunov, Bonnie Bedelia
  • IMDb Ratings: 8.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 94%
  • Streaming Platforms: HBO Max, HBO Now, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play

It is deemed as one of the best action movies of all time. The plot of this infamous box-office success starts with John McClane, an NYPD cop, enjoying his Christmas vacation with his wife, Holly. They meet at a party at the Nakatomi Corporation, where Hans Gruber, a German criminal, initiates an elaborate heist and takes everyone in the tower hostage. McClane somehow manages to escape the tower and decides take down the terrorists and free the hostages.

2. Die Hard 2 (1990)

Die Hard 2

  • Director: Renny Harlin
  • Writer: Walter Wager, Steven E. de Souza, Doug Richardson
  • Cast: Bruce Willis, Bonnie Bedelia, William Atherton, Reginald VelJohnson
  • IMDb Ratings: 7.2/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 69%
  • Streaming Platforms: HBO MAX, HBO NOW, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play

It is the second film in the Die Hard film franchise. Two years after the horrifying incident at Nakatomi Tower, our hero, John McClane, is waiting for his wife at the Washington Dulles International Airport. After detecting some suspicious behavior at the airport, McClane learns that there is a plan brewing to hijack the airport system and ask to free a drug lord as ransom. McClain attempts to stop these criminals.

3. Die Hard with a Vengeance (1995)

Die Hard with a Vengeance

  • Director: John McTiernan
  • Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh, Roderick Thorp
  • Cast: Bruce Willis, Jeremy Irons, Samuel L. Jackson, Graham Greene
  • IMDb Ratings: 7.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 59%
  • Streaming Platforms: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix, HBO MAX & HBO

After being suspended by the NYPD, detective John McClane is forced to comply with a bomber named Simon Gruber and carry out a task that would tag him as racist. He is helped by an electrician named Zeus Craver. Simon contacts them again and manipulates them by threatening to detonate another bomb. John McClane and Craver are forced to comply and the plot ends with them discovering Simon’s intentions.

4. Live Free or Die Hard (2007)

Live Free or Die Hard

  • Director: Len Wiseman
  • Writer: Mark Bomback, Mark Bomback, David Marconi, John Carlin, Roderick Thorp
  • Cast: Bruce Willis, Justin Long, Timothy Olyphant, Cliff Curtis
  • IMDb Ratings: 7.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 82%
  • Streaming Platforms: Amazon Prime Video

The fourth sequel of the series, Live Free or Die Hard, starts with John McClane, a NYPD detective, on his way to arrest a hacker named Matthew Farrell. He finds him being attacked by some assassins working under the orders of a cybercriminal, Thomas Gabriel. Both of them team up to take him down for good.

5. Pulp Fiction (1994)

Pulp Fiction Movie Scene

  • Director: Quentin Tarantino
  • Writer: Quentin Tarantino, Roger Avary
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Butch Coolidge), John Travolta, Samuel L. Jackson, Uma Thurman, Harvey Keitel
  • IMDb Ratings: 8.9/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 92%
  • Streaming Platforms: STARZ, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play

Pulp Fiction is one of the best comedy-crime movies of all time. This film, in which Willis plays the role of Butch Coolidge, tells the stories of various criminals of Los Angeles. It is derived from the “Pulp Magazines,” famous for their raw, graphic violence and explicit language. In this movie, Willis’ character Coolidge is a boxer who is supposed to fight a mob king named Marcellus Wallace.

6. 12 Monkeys (1995)

12 Monkeys Movie Scene

  • Director: Terry Gilliam
  • Writer: Chris Marker, David Webb Peoples, Janet Peoples
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (As James Cole), Madeleine Stowe, Brad Pitt, Christopher Plummer
  • IMDb Ratings: 8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 89%
  • Streaming Platforms: Hulu, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

Directed by Terry Gilliam, Twelve Monkeys is a science-fiction movie adapted from a short film,” La Jetée.” The story starts in the year 2035, in Baltimore. In 1996, a group called “The Army of the Twelve Monkeys” had released a virus that became a pandemic and almost killed the entire human race. James Cole, a 2035 prisoner, is tasked to time travel back to 1996 and find the origin of the virus and help scientists find a cure.

7. Looper (2012)

Looper Movie Scene

  • Director: Rian Johnson
  • Writer: Rian Johnson
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Old Joe), Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Emily Blunt, Paul Dano
  • IMDb Ratings: 7.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 93%
  • Streaming Platforms: Fandango Now, VUDU, Prime Video, Apple TV

The plot of this movie is set in the year 2074. A ‘Looper’ named Joe, working for a crime syndicate is tasked with transporting future criminals in the past, killing them, and disposing of their bodies. He learns that one day he will be tasked to kill his past self in order to close the loop. Along with his friend Seth, Joe figures out a away to stay alive.

8. The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Sixth Sense (1999) Movie Scene

  • Director: M. N. Shyamalan
  • Writer: M. N. Shyamalan
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Malcolm Crowe), Toni Collette, Olivia Williams, Haley Joel Osment
  • IMDb Ratings: 8.1/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 86%
  • Streaming Platforms: Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

This Supernatural movie revolves around the life of a psychologist named Malcolm Crowe. One day, he is visited by one of his former patients named Vincent Grey, who accused him of not treating him properly. In an attempt to kill Crowe, Vincent shots him and then kills himself as well. Crowe, however, survives. Later in the story, he meets a young boy named Cole who claims that he can see dead people. He learns Cole’s gifts are real and the plot continues.

9. The Fifth Element (1997)

The Fifth Element

  • Director: Luc Besson
  • Writer: Luc Besson, Robert Mark Kamen
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Korben Dallas), Gary Oldman, Ian Holm, Chris Tucker
  • IMDb Ratings: 7.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 70%
  • Streaming Platforms: Hulu, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

This movie is adapted from a French film “Le Cinquième Élément.” Its plot is set in the 23rd century, where the earth is threated by some great evil. In order to destroy this evil, Korben Dallas, our hero, sets off to find an ancient weapon which can only be activated using the five elements. While transporting the fifth element, Leeloo, who is a Human-Robot hybrid, is destroyed. Using her residual DNA, scientists successfully rebuild her. The plot concludes with Dallas and Leeloo teaming up and destroying the evil for good.

10. Unbreakable (2002)

Unbreakable

  • Director: M. Night Shyamalan
  • Writer: M. Night Shyamalan
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (David Dunn), Samuel L. Jackson, Robin Wright Penn
  • IMDb Ratings: 7.3/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Ratings: 70%
  • Streaming Platforms: Amazon Prime Video

“Unbreakable” is the first film of the Eastrail 177 Trilogy, preceding “Glass” and “Split”. David Dunn, a football player turned security guard, discovers that he is gifted with superpowers. An accident in his childhood had rendered his bone unbreakable. After learning that Elijah Prince, a man with the “Brittle Bone Disease” was responsible for that accident. The movie ends with David reporting him to cops and lives on his life as a superhero.

11. Red (2010)

Red

  • Director: Robert Schwentke
  • Writer: Jon Hoeber, Erich Hoeber
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Frank Moses), Morgan Freeman, John Malkovich, Helen Mirren
  • IMDb Ratings: 7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 72%
  • Streaming Platforms: Amazon Prime Video, Netflix

An Ex-CIA agent named Frank Moses, termed as R.E.D. (Retired, Extremely Dangerous), is targeted by some assassins. He calls his old team members to help him investigate these assailants. The team now reassembled by Frank Moses, learns that the country’s Vice President is going to be assassinated and sets off on a mission to stop this operation.

12. Moonrise Kingdom (2012)

Moonrise Kingdom

  • Director: Wes Anderson
  • Writer: Wes Anderson, Roman Coppola
  • Cast: Bruce Willis(Captain Sharp), Edward Norton, Bill Murray, Frances McDormand
  • IMDb Rating: 7.8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 94%
  • Streaming Platforms: Peacock, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

Moonrise Kingdom is a teenage-drama film directed by Wes Anderson. It follows the story of two young lovers, Sam and Suzy, living on a fictional island called “New Penzance.” They decide to run away together after their guardians disapprove of their relationship. Captain Sharp, the local police organizes a search party for both of them.

13. Sin City (2005)

Sin City

  • Director: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino
  • Writer: Frank Miller, Robert Rodriguez
  • Cast: Jessica Alba, Benicio del Toro, Brittany Murphy, Clive Owen, Bruce Willis (John Hartigan)
  • IMDb Rating: 8.0/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 77%
  • Streaming Platforms: CBS All Access, Tubi TV, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

Sin City (A.K.A. Frank Miller’s Sin City) is a crime film based on a graphic novel of the same name. The plot includes four crime stories in which detective John Hartigan does everything in his power to make sure all the criminals are behind bars.

14. Lucky Number Selvin (2006)

  • Director: Paul McGuigan
  • Writer: Jason Smilovic
  • Cast: Josh Hartnett, Morgan Freeman, Ben Kingsley, Lucy Liu, Bruce Willis (Mr. Goodkat)
  • IMDb Rating: 7.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 52%
  • Streaming Platforms: Hulu, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

The story starts with the death of two bookies and a mob leader’s son. Meanwhile, Mr. Goodkat, a hitman, narrates the “Kansas City Shuffle” story to a young man at a bus terminal and then kills him. As the story proceeds, the reasons for these killings are revealed and the plot concludes with Goodkat sparing Selvin’s life.

15. Death Becomes Her (1992)

Death Becomes Her

  • Director: Robert Zemeckis
  • Writer: Martin Donovan, David Koepp
  • Cast: Meryl Streep, Bruce Willis (Dr. Ernest Menville), Goldie Hawn, Isabella Rossellini
  • IMDb Rating: 6.6/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 54%
  • Streaming Platforms: HBO MAX, HBO NOW, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play

Death Becomes Her is a dark-comedy film which revolves around the lives of three main characters. Madeline Ashton, a Broadway actresses and Helen Sharp, a writer, and her fiancé Dr. Ernest Menville, are caught up in a love triangle. Dr. Ernest falls in love with Madeline and leaves his fiancé Helen. Years later, admitted in a Psychiatric hospital, Helen plots a revenge against the two.

16. The Last Boy Scout (1991)

The Last Boy Scout

  • Director: Tony Scott
  • Writer: Shane Black, Greg Hicks
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Joe Hallenbeck ), Damon Wayans, Chelsea Field, Noble Willingham
  • IMDb Rating: 7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 47%
  • Streaming Platforms: iTunes, VUDU, YouTube, Google Play, Microsoft Store

The Last Boy Scout is an action-comedy film. The plot starts with Jimmy Dix, an L.A. Stallions player hiring a private detective named Joe Hallenbeck, to protect his girlfriend, Cory. Cory then gets killed in a shooting. Both Joe and Jimmy set out to find the people responsible and exposes a corruption scandal.

17. The Whole Nine Yards (2000)

The Whole Nine Yards

  • Director: Jonathan Lynn
  • Writer: Mitchell Kapner
  • Cast: Bruce Willis ( Jimmy “The Tulip” Tudeski), Matthew Perry, Rosanna Arquette, Michael Clarke Duncan
  • IMDb Rating: 6.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 44%
  • Streaming Platforms: Netflix, Amazon Prime Video

The story begins when Jimmy Tudeski, an ex-mobster moves to Montreal, Canada. His new neighbor Oz, discovers that Jimmy has a bounty on his head and hence decides to befriend him. Forced by his wife Oz heads for Chicago to inform Jimmy’s boss about his location.

18. Last Man Standing (1996)

Last Man Standing

  • Director: Walter Hill
  • Writers: Ryûzô Kikushima, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Hill
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (John Smith), Christopher Walken, Alexandra Powers, David Patrick Kelly
  • IMDb Rating: 6.4/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 37%
  • Streaming Platforms: VUDU, Prime Video, iTunes, VUDU, Google Play, Microsoft Store

The plot is set in the times of “Prohibition” in Texas. John Smith, a mercenary for hire,driving through a town named Jericho, is attacked by mobsters led by someone named “Doyle.” Later in the movie, Smith finds himself in the middle of a mob war between two rivals and decides to play both sides and make some money in the process.

19. Armageddon (1998)

Armageddon Poster

  • Director: Michael Bay
  • Writer: Jonathan Hensleigh, J.J. Abrams, Tony Gilroy, Shane Salerno, Robert Roy Pool, Jonathan Hensleigh
  • Cast: Bruce Willis (Harry S. Stamper), Billy Bob Thornton, Liv Tyler, Ben Affleck
  • IMDb b: 6.7/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 38%
  • Streaming Platforms: Amazon Prime Video

The plot start with meteors entering the Earths atmosphere and destroying New York City. The NASA learns that they had been pushed out of the asteroid belt by a comet and that another huge one is will be heading towards earth in 18 years. An expert I deep sea driller, Harry S. Stamper is contacted and sent to train astronauts who would go to space and destroy the asteroid.

20. Nobody’s Fool (1994)

Nobody's Fool

  • Director: Robert Benton
  • Writer: Robert Benton
  • Cast: Paul Newman, Jessica Tandy, Bruce Willis (Carl Roebuck), Melanie Griffith
  • IMDb Rating: 4.8/10
  • Rotten Tomatoes Score: 26%
  • Streaming Platforms: Netflix, Prime video

The plot of this comedy film follows the life of Donald Sullivan, an arrogant construction worker and his enemy, Carl Roebuck (Played by Willis), a local contractor who never misses a chance to cause him trouble. The plot continues as Sully tries to overcome all the hurdles and finally be at peace.

Other Noteworthy Movies Featuring Bruce Willis

  • Hostage (2005) – As Jeff Talley
  • Hudson Hawk (1991) – As Hudson Hawk
  • Motherless Brooklyn (2019) – As Frank Minna
  • Colour of Night (1994) – As Bill Capa
  • Sixteen Block (2006) – As Jack Mosley
  • Acts of Violence (2018) – As James Avery
  • Charlies Angels: Full Throttle (2003) – As William Rose Bailey
  • Tears of The Sun (2003) – As A K Waters
  • Once Upon a Time in Venice (2017) – As Steve Ford
  • Blind Date (1987) – As Walter Davis
  • The Kid (2007) – As Russ Duritz
  • Billy Bathgate (1991) – As Bo Weinberg
  • Perfect Stranger (2007) – As Harrison Hill
  • Shatterday (The Twilight Zone) – As Peter Novins
  • Breakfast of Champions (1973) – As Dwayne Hoover
  • The Expendables (2010) – As Mr. Church
  • Extraction (2015) – As Leonard Turner
  • Striking Distance (1993) – As Tom Hardy
  • Planet Terror (2007) – As Lt. Muldoon
  • Beavis and Butt-head Do America(1996) – As Muddy Grimes
  • Alpha Dog (2006) – As Sonny Truelove
  • Hart’s War (2002) – As Col. William

It is pretty obvious that Willis’s epic acting skills and iconic character roles are acclaimed universally. But, his everyman nature is what has conquered hearts of millions. There’s no doubt that this “Die Hard” superhero can never be replaced and will live on eternally as one of the best action stars this world has ever seen.

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