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The Circle (2017)
The Circle is a 2017 American techno-thriller film directed by James Ponsoldt with a screenplay by Ponsoldt and Dave Eggers, based on Eggers' 2013 novel of the same name. The film stars Emma Watson and Tom Hanks, as well as John Boyega, Karen Gillan, Ellar Coltrane, Patton Oswalt, Glenne Headly, and Bill Paxton. This would mark a posthumous release...
Starring: Jon Bon Jovi•Ellar Coltrane•Charlton Heston•Shirley MacLaine•Marion Ross•George Kennedy•Kurt Russell•Christopher George
Million Dollar Arm (2014)
Million Dollar Arm is a 2014 American biographical sports drama film directed by Craig Gillespie and produced by Walt Disney Pictures from a screenplay written by Tom McCarthy. The film is based on the true story of baseball pitchers Rinku Singh and Dinesh Patel who were discovered by sports agent J. B. Bernstein after winning a reality show compet...
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar•Ellar Coltrane•Harvey Keitel•Wayne Newton•Michael Douglas•John Hurt
Edge of Tomorrow (2014)
Edge of Tomorrow is a 2014 American science fiction action film starring Tom Cruise and Emily Blunt with Bill Paxton and Brendan Gleeson in supporting roles. Directed by Doug Liman with a screenplay written by Christopher McQuarrie and the writing team of Jez and John-Henry Butterworth, its story is adapted from the 2004 Japanese light novel All Yo...
Starring: David Warner•Ellar Coltrane•Arnold Schwarzenegger•Sam Elliott
Nightcrawler (2014)
Nightcrawler is a 2014 American neo-noir psychological thriller film directed and written by Dan Gilroy in his directorial debut and co-produced by and starring Jake Gyllenhaal as Louis "Lou" Bloom, a stringer who records violent events late at night in Los Angeles and sells the footage to a local television news station. The film also stars Rene R...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Bo Svenson•Gary Busey•Kathleen Quinlan
2 Guns (2013)
2 Guns is a 2013 American buddy cop action comedy film directed by Baltasar Kormákur and starring Denzel Washington and Mark Wahlberg. It is based on the comic book series of the same name created by Steven Grant and Mateus Santolouco, published in 2007 by Boom! Studios. The film was released in the United States on August 2, 2013, and was met with...
Starring: Peter Firth•Brian Dennehy•Ellar Coltrane•Billy Bob Thornton•Jamie Lee Curtis•Kevin Bacon•Sigourney Weaver
Haywire (2012)
Haywire is a 2011 action thriller film directed by Steven Soderbergh, starring Gina Carano, Michael Fassbender, Ewan McGregor, Bill Paxton, Channing Tatum, Antonio Banderas, and Michael Douglas. Carano, a mixed martial arts fighter, performs her own stunts in the film. The score is by DJ and composer David Holmes.
Starring: David Keith•Ellar Coltrane•Vincent Spano•Patrick Swayze•Ed Harris•Tom Hanks•Joe Pantoliano•Adam Baldwin
Titanic 3D (2012)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship...
Starring: Joanne Whalley•Nicholas Cascone•Tom Cruise•Billy Zane•Ellar Coltrane•Rene Russo•Dennis Haysbert•Ben Kingsley•Bridget Fonda•William Sadler
Club Dread (2004)
Club Dread is a 2004 comedy slasher film directed by Jay Chandrasekhar and written by and starring the comedy troupe Broken Lizard, Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, Erik Stolhanske, Brittany Daniel, and Bill Paxton. The film follows a group of staff members on a tropical island resort, where an unknown killer begins a murder...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Mary Beth McDonough•David Wallace•Bill Paxton•Julia Duffy•Jami Gertz•Ice-T•Gary Cole•Judd Nelson•María Conchita Alonso
Thunderbirds (2004)
Thunderbirds is a 2004 science fiction action-adventure film directed by Jonathan Frakes, based on the 1960s TV series Thunderbirds created by Gerry and Sylvia Anderson. The film, written by William Osborne and Michael McCullers, was released on 20 July 2004 in the United Kingdom and 30 July 2004 in the United States.
Starring: Danny Glover•Ellar Coltrane•Anthony Edwards•Val Kilmer•Ilan Mitchell-Smith•Jenny Wright•Suzy Amis•Helen Hunt•Robert Davi•Robert Downey Jr.
Frailty (2001)
Frailty is a 2001 psychological thriller film directed by and starring Bill Paxton, and co-starring Matthew McConaughey and Powers Boothe. It marks Paxton's directorial debut. The plot focuses on the strange relationship between two young brothers and their father, who believes that he has been commanded by God to kill demons disguised as people. R...
Starring: Lex Shrapnel•Ellar Coltrane•Liam Neeson
U-571 (2000)
U-571 is a 2000 submarine film directed by Jonathan Mostow from a screenplay he co-wrote with Sam Montgomery and David Ayer. The film stars Matthew McConaughey, Harvey Keitel, Bill Paxton, Jon Bon Jovi, Jake Weber and Matthew Settle. The film, telling the story of a World War II German submarine boarded by American submariners to capture her Enigma...
Starring: Jenette Goldstein•Stephen Lang•Ellar Coltrane•Liam Neeson•Jeff Fahey
Vertical Limit (2000)
Vertical Limit is a 2000 American survival thriller film directed by Martin Campbell, written by Robert King, and starring Chris O'Donnell, Bill Paxton, Robin Tunney, and Scott Glenn. The film was released on December 8, 2000, in the United States by Columbia Pictures, receiving mixed reviews and grossed $215 million at the box office.
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Adrian Pasdar•Dana Delany
Mighty Joe Young (1998)
Mighty Joe Young is a 1998 American epic adventure film based on the 1949 film of the same name about a giant mountain gorilla brought to a wildlife preserve in Los Angeles by a young woman who raised him, and a zoologist, to protect him from the threat of poachers until one seeks Joe out in order to take his revenge. It was directed by Ron Underwo...
Starring: Miranda Richardson•Ellar Coltrane•Art Malik•Cary Elwes•Rick Rossovich•Kathy Bates
A Simple Plan (1998)
A Simple Plan is a 1998 neo-noir crime thriller film directed by Sam Raimi and written by Scott B. Smith, based on Smith's 1993 novel of the same name. The film stars Bill Paxton, Billy Bob Thornton, and Bridget Fonda. Set in rural Minnesota, the story follows brothers Hank (Paxton) and Jacob Mitchell (Thornton), who, along with Jacob's friend Lou,...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Rubén Blades•George Newbern•Lake Bell
Titanic (1997)
Titanic is a 1997 American epic romance and disaster film directed, written, produced, and co-edited by James Cameron. Incorporating both historical and fictionalized aspects, it is based on accounts of the sinking of the RMS Titanic and stars Kate Winslet and Leonardo DiCaprio as members of different social classes who fall in love aboard the ship...
Starring: Joanne Whalley•Nicholas Cascone•Billy Zane•Ellar Coltrane•Rene Russo•Dennis Haysbert•Juliette Lewis•Bridget Fonda•William Sadler•Chris O'Donnell
Traveller (1997)
Traveller is a 1997 American crime comedy-drama film directed by Jack N. Green in his directorial debut. The film stars Bill Paxton, Mark Wahlberg, Julianna Margulies, James Gammon, and Luke Askew. The story follows a man and a group of nomadic con artists in North Carolina. The film premiered at the South by Southwest Film Festival on March 8, 199...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Billy Bob Thornton•Leonardo DiCaprio
The Evening Star (1996)
The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film. It is a sequel to the Academy Award-winning 1983 film Terms of Endearment starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar in the original film. Based on the 1992 novel by Larry McMurtry, the screenplay is by Robert Harling, who also served as dire...
Starring: Julie Warner•Tia Carrere•Matt Craven•Ellar Coltrane•Gary Sinise•David Paymer•Cynda Williams•Michael Beach•Matthew McConaughey
Twister (1996)
Twister is a 1996 American epic disaster film directed by Jan de Bont from a screenplay by Michael Crichton and Anne-Marie Martin. It was produced by Crichton, Kathleen Kennedy, and Ian Bryce, with Steven Spielberg, Walter Parkes, Laurie MacDonald, and Gerald R. Molen serving as executive producers. The film stars an ensemble cast that includes Hel...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Lindsay Frost•Regina King•Scott Wolf
Apollo 13 (1995)
Apollo 13 is a 1995 American space docudrama film directed by Ron Howard and starring Tom Hanks, Kevin Bacon, Bill Paxton, Ed Harris, and Gary Sinise. The screenplay by William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert dramatizes the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission and is an adaptation of the 1994 book Lost Moon: The Perilous Voyage of Apollo 13, by astronau...
Starring: Mark Wahlberg•Tom Arnold•Robin Tunney•Jon Bon Jovi•Ellar Coltrane•Charlize Theron
Frank & Jesse (1994)
Frank and Jesse is a 1994 American biographical Western film written and directed by Robert Boris and starring Rob Lowe as Jesse James and Bill Paxton as Frank James. Based on the story of Jesse James, the film focuses more on myths of The James Brothers than the real history. It originally aired on HBO.
Starring: Ewan McGregor•Ellar Coltrane
True Lies (1994)
True Lies is a 1994 American spy action comedy film written and directed by James Cameron, based on the 1991 French comedy film La Totale!. The film stars Arnold Schwarzenegger as Harry Tasker, a U.S. government agent who struggles to balance his double life as a spy with his familial duties. Jamie Lee Curtis, Tom Arnold, Bill Paxton, Art Malik, an...
Starring: Julianna Margulies•Rade Serbedzija•Brendan Gleeson•Ellar Coltrane•Emma Watson•Brittany Daniel•Jordan Ladd
Indian Summer (1993)
Indian Summer is a 1993 American comedy drama film written and directed by Mike Binder. The movie was filmed at Camp Tamakwa, which Binder had attended for ten summers as a child camper. Indian Summer features an ensemble cast, including Binder's childhood friend, film director Sam Raimi, who has a supporting role in it.
Starring: Jay Chandrasekhar•Kevin Heffernan•Steve Lemme•Ellar Coltrane•Erik Stolhanske•M. C. Gainey•Lindsay Price•Patton Oswalt
Tombstone (1993)
Tombstone is a 1993 American Western film directed by George P. Cosmatos, written by Kevin Jarre, and starring Kurt Russell and Val Kilmer, with Sam Elliott, Bill Paxton, Powers Boothe, Michael Biehn, and Dana Delany in supporting roles, as well as narration by Robert Mitchum.
Starring: Sophia Myles•Ron Cook•Philip Winchester•Lex Shrapnel•Dominic Colenso•Ellar Coltrane•Paula Patton•Michael Angarano•Emily Blunt•Michael Fassbender
One False Move (1992)
One False Move is a 1992 American crime thriller film directed by Carl Franklin and co-written by Billy Bob Thornton. The film stars Thornton alongside Bill Paxton and Cynda Williams. The low-budget production was about to be released straight to home video when it was finished, but became popular through word of mouth, convincing the distributor t...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Lake Bell•Riz Ahmed•John Boyega
Trespass (1992)
Trespass is a 1992 American action film directed by Walter Hill and starring Bill Paxton, Ice Cube, Ice-T, and William Sadler. Paxton and Sadler star as two firemen who decide to search an abandoned building for a hidden treasure but wind up being targeted by a street gang.
Starring: Ellar Coltrane•Suraj Sharma•Allie DeBerry•Karen Gillan
The Vagrant (1992)
The Vagrant is a 1992 comedy horror film directed by Chris Walas and executive produced by Mel Brooks, through his Brooksfilms production company. The film stars Bill Paxton as Graham Krakowski, a financial clerk who is being driven insane by a homeless man after moving into a new home across the street from where the homeless man had been squattin...
Starring: Ellar Coltrane
The Dark Backward (1991)
The Dark Backward is a 1991 American satirical comedy film written and directed by Adam Rifkin, and starring Judd Nelson, Bill Paxton, Wayne Newton, and Lara Flynn Boyle. The film features special makeup effects by Alterian, Inc.
Starring: George Kennedy•Ellar Coltrane•Christopher George•Lynda Day George
Brain Dead (1990)
Brain Dead is a 1990 psychological horror-thriller film directed by Adam Simon. It stars Bill Pullman, Bill Paxton and George Kennedy.
Starring: Wayne Newton•Ellar Coltrane•Bo Svenson
The Last of the Finest (1990)
The Last of the Finest, also released as Blue Heat, is a 1990 American crime action film directed by John Mackenzie and starring Brian Dennehy, Joe Pantoliano, Jeff Fahey, and Bill Paxton
Starring: Gary Busey•Brian Dennehy•Ellar Coltrane•Lance Henriksen
Navy SEALs (1990)
Navy SEALS is a 1990 American military action film, directed by Lewis Teague, written by Chuck Pfarrer and Gary Goldman, and produced by Brenda Feigen and Bernard Williams with consultant William Bradley. The film stars Charlie Sheen, Michael Biehn, Joanne Whalley-Kilmer, Rick Rossovich, Cyril O'Reilly, Bill Paxton, and Dennis Haysbert.
Starring: Philip Winchester•Ellar Coltrane•Sigourney Weaver•Patrick Swayze•Joe Pantoliano•Adam Baldwin
Predator 2 (1990)
Predator 2 is a 1990 American science fiction action film written by brothers Jim and John Thomas, directed by Stephen Hopkins, and starring Danny Glover, Gary Busey, Ruben Blades, María Conchita Alonso, Bill Paxton, and Kevin Peter Hall. It is the second installment of the Predator franchise, and sequel to 1987's Predator, with Kevin Peter Hall re...
Starring: Tim Curry•Kevin Peter Hall•Ellar Coltrane•Paul Reiser•Anthony Michael Hall•Mary Beth McDonough•David Wallace
Next of Kin (1989)
Next of Kin is a 1989 American action thriller film directed by John Irvin and starring Patrick Swayze and Liam Neeson, with Adam Baldwin, Helen Hunt, Bill Paxton and Ben Stiller in one of his earliest roles. The screenplay was based on a story of the same title, both written by Michael Jenning.
Starring: Julia Duffy•Judd Nelson•Ellar Coltrane•Regina King•María Conchita Alonso
Pass the Ammo (1988)
Pass the Ammo is a 1987 American comedy film starring Bill Paxton, Annie Potts, Linda Kozlowski and Tim Curry. The film is a spoof of televangelism released right after the real-life scandals related to Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart. The movie's working title during production was ...And Pass the Ammunition, a reference to the phrase "praise the Lo...
Starring: Danny Glover•Ellar Coltrane
Near Dark (1987)
Near Dark is a 1987 American neo-Western horror film co-written and directed by Kathryn Bigelow, and starring Adrian Pasdar, Jenny Wright, Bill Paxton, Lance Henriksen and Jenette Goldstein. The plot follows a young man in a small Oklahoma town who becomes involved with a family of nomadic American vampires.
Starring: Robert Davi•Ellar Coltrane•Ilan Mitchell-Smith•Jenny Wright
Aliens (1986)
Aliens is a 1986 science fiction action film written and directed by James Cameron. It is the sequel to the 1979 science fiction horror film Alien, and the second film in the Alien franchise. Set in the far future, it stars Sigourney Weaver as Ellen Ripley, the sole survivor of an alien attack on her ship. When communications are lost with a human ...
Starring: Robert Davi•Robert Downey Jr.•Philip Winchester•Kelly LeBrock•Ellar Coltrane•Carrie Henn•Jenette Goldstein
Weird Science (1985)
Weird Science is a 1985 American science fantasy buddy comedy film written and directed by John Hughes and starring Anthony Michael Hall, Ilan Mitchell-Smith, and Kelly LeBrock. The title is taken from a pre-Comics Code Authority 1950s EC Comics magazine of the same name, the rights to which were acquired by the film's producer Joel Silver. The tit...
Starring: Liam Neeson•Ellar Coltrane•Jeff Fahey•Bill Pullman•Adrian Pasdar
Mortuary (1983)
Mortuary is a 1983 American slasher film directed by Howard Avedis and starred Bill Paxton, Mary Beth McDonough, David Wallace, Lynda Day George, with Michael Berryman and Christopher George in his final film role before his death.
Starring: Rick Rossovich•Rubén Blades•Joanne Whalley•Lara Flynn Boyle•Ellar Coltrane
Night Warning (1983)
Butcher, Baker, Nightmare Maker is a 1981 American exploitation horror film directed by William Asher, and starring Susan Tyrrell, Jimmy McNichol, Julia Duffy, and Bo Svenson. Framed as a contemporary Oedipus tale, the plot focuses on a teenager who, raised by his neurotic aunt, finds himself at the center of a murder investigation after she stabs ...
Starring: Dennis Haysbert•Ellar Coltrane•Julia Duffy