68 Bill Paxton Movies & TV Shows, Ranked Best to Worst

A deep space salvage team recovers Ellen Ripley's escape shuttle 57 years after the events of the first film, but her alien story is dismissed by her company, which has now colonized the exomoon. However, once communication with the space colony is lost, Ripley is called back to assist space marines in a daring rescue mission.

In this James Cameron’s science fiction film, a cyborg assassin and a human soldier, both from 2029, are sent to 1984 on a mission. The former is programmed to kill a woman, Sarah Connor, whose unborn son is supposed to become the saviour of humanity in post-apocalyptic future. The latter, meanwhile, is tasked to save her.

James Cameron's epic retelling of the Titanic disaster is from the point-of-view of 100-year-old fictional character Rose, a passenger of the sunken ship along with her widowed mother and snob fiancé. She explains the back-story of the now-recovered erotic picture of her, sketched by her lover, wandering orphaned artist Jack, whom she had met on the ill-fated ship.

Adapted from a Hiroshi Sakurazaka’s Japanese novel, All You Need Is Kill, the movie has Major William Cage, with no fighting experience, joining a landing operation when aliens attack earth. He is killed quickly; however, caught in a time loop, he returns every time to face the same combat. With every battle, he begins to improve his skill and strives to defeat the enemies.  

Nightcrawler is an adrenaline-charged thriller that revolves around a small-time robber who turns into a photographer of grisly crimes. Armed with a camcorder and a police scanner, a petty thief scours the streets of Los Angeles at night in search of increasingly gruesome crimes that he sells to a desperate morning news director of a television channel.

Leaving behind his life as a lawman, Wyatt Earp moves to Tombstone, Arizona along with his two brothers with an aspiration to start a new life. His old friend, Doc Holliday, is also there. His plans, though, are threatened by the violent outlaws - the Cowboys - who run the town and intimidate the residents. Worsening situation leads up to a shoot-out at the O.K. Corral.

The movie, based on the aborted 1970 Apollo 13 lunar mission, follows Jim Lovell and his team as they prepare to fly Apollo 13, NASA's third lunar landing mission. After the launch everything is fine, until an explosion in one of the oxygen tanks puts the lives of the astronauts at risk. Back at NASA, Kranz, John Aaron and Ken Mattingly struggle to bring back the astronauts safely.

Hank, his brother Jacob and Jacob’s friend Lou find a crashed plane with a dead pilot and $4.4million cash in the woods in rural Minnesota. They decide to keep the money a secret, wait for a while and then divide the booty. But soon everyone becomes suspicious and as the slowly disintegrating trust raises complications, their simple plan turns anything but that.

An action comedy film based on the 1991 French comedy film La Totale!, True Lies follows U.S. government agent Harry Tasker, who struggles to balance his life as a spy with his familial duties. Directed by James Cameron, the movie grossed $378 million worldwide at the box office. 

Wesley Doyle, detective-in-charge of the ‘God’s Hands’ serial murders, is shocked when youngster Fenton Meiks reveals that his fanatically religious widower father received a vision telling him to ‘destroy demons residing in humans.’ Though Fenton detested, he couldn’t go against father, while younger brother Adam hero-worshipped father, and after father’s death, continues as ‘God’s Hands.’ But is it really as it appears?

One False Move is a crime drama film which tells the story of a three criminals Fantasia, Ray and Pluto, who are looking for a place to go into hiding. They soon find themselves in a small town, but the police chief is informed about their possible presence.

Million Dollar Arm is a sports drama film, which tells the story of a sports agent who attempts to find fresh baseball talent for his recently established company. To do this, he stages an unconventional recruitment strategy. 

After losing his job and girlfriend, John Winger, with friend Russell Ziskey, joins army, to have some fun. Instead, they’ve to face grueling training with drill sergeant, Sergeant Hulka, but pretty MPs Stella and Louise compensate for the ordeal. Chosen front-man of a platoon of army-misfits, they inadvertently end up rescuing their platoon from behind the enemy line while testing an assault vehicle.  

Veteran filmmaker James Cameron, who is best known for the 1997 film ‘Titanic’, travels to the final resting spot of the ill-fated ship. He is accompanied by a team of historians and his friend Bill Paxton.

DEA agent Bobby Trench, hoping to implicate his target, decides to stay undercover to help Michael Stigman in a bank robbery, but unbeknownst to Trench, Stigman is an undercover naval intelligence officer with instructions to kill him. After both are disavowed by their respective organizations, they must work together against a ruthless Mexican drug lord while avoiding arrest.

When retired Black Ops Commando Colonel John Matrix’s daughter is abducted, he is forced to take up arms once again. The mastermind behind the kidnapping, an exiled Latin American dictator Arius, demands that to save his daughter’s life, Matrix must reinstate him to power by eliminating the President of his country. So, how does Matrix tackle this challenge? 

Streets of Fire is a romantic drama action thriller film which tells the story of a mercenary, who is hired to rescue his former lover, when the latter gets kidnapped by a motorcycle gang.   

Pete is a student who gets a lift from Zack, and he invites the latter for dinner to repay the favor. When Zack praises Adolf Hitler at the dinner, Pete’s liberal roommates kill him. They argue that their action is a favor to humanity. Hoping that such actions would ‘make the world a better place’, they decide to invite other conservative guests for dinner, and if they are unwilling to change their beliefs, they would be killed.

When a Nazi U-boat is severely damaged during World War II, it sends out a distress signal which is intercepted by the US Navy. The US Navy captures the U-boat to recover an Enigma machine. But soon they end up in a battle for survival when a German destroyer arrives and attempts to destroy the captured U-571. 

Always picked-on by peers and ignored by girls, tech-nerds Gary Wallace and Wyatt Donnelly, try to create their dream-woman through the computer, and are shocked when the experiment succeeds in creating gorgeous Lisa, a superhuman who could wield magic powers. She is the perfect one to help them boost their self-esteem and gain popularity. Can their enchanted journey continue to sail smoothly? 

Indian Summer is a comedy drama film which tells the story of a group of friends, who reunite for a holiday. They decide to visit the same summer camp in Ontario, which they had attended as kids. However, they learn that the camp might now be closed down.

Successful weatherman Bill Harding seeks out his estranged storm chaser wife Jo to get divorce papers signed, but finds out that she has developed devices based on his design to further tornado research. When he realizes that a rival has copied his design, he rushes to get Jo's devices field tested at the heart of violent tornados.

An LAPD detective, Lt. Mike Harrigan is fighting against Colombian and Jamaican drug cartels. When these drug dealers are killed by someone mysterious, he and his team set out to find the identity of the killer. FBI investigator Stephen Keyes instructs them to stay away, but Harrigan soon discovers that the killing is the work of an alien predator, whose pastime now has to be stopped.

Renowned mountaineer Annie Garrett has been hired by a wealthy businessman to lead an expedition to K2. Her brother, who has quit climbing blaming himself for the death of their father, reunites with her at K2 base camp and organizes a rescue squad when the team is trapped in a crevasse. But there is more to the story than just climbing.  

A science-fiction thriller film, Impulse tells the story of the residents of a small rural town who start to exhibit strange and violent behavior after the seal on a toxic waste burial site ruptures and the town’s milk supply gets contaminated. 

MMA Black Ops operative, Mallory Kane, is sent on a mission to Dublin where she is deceived and left for dead by someone from her agency whom she knew well. In order to survive, she needs to find the facts behind the betrayal. Hounded by skilled assassins, she has to employ all the tricks of her training to outwit her killers. 

Next of Kin is a crime thriller action film which tells the story of Truman, a police officer in Chicago, whose brother is killed by the mob. Therefore, he sets out on a mission to find the killer. Meanwhile, Briar, another one of his brothers, decides to look for the killer on his own.

Jill Young is best friends with a legendary fifteen-foot tall mountain gorilla named Joe, and the two grow up together. Joe is eventually taken to an animal sanctuary in California by Gregg O’Hara, a zoologist. However, they are unaware of the fact that a poacher is trying to hunt Joe down. 

A greedy and corrupt businessman is on the run from the government along with his eighteen year old daughter Pippa, from their comfortable life in Miami to the Cayman Islands. At the islands, things get more complicated when he sees that the banks are closing, but he is in need of a place to keep all his stolen money.

Navy Seals is an action thriller film which revolves around a group of Arab terrorists who are in possession of lethal weapons. When they hold a group of Americans hostage, in order to further their goals, an elite unit of the US Navy commandos are sent to deal with them.

Nick Barrow, a guy known for setting up heists, finds himself being targeted by several hitmen. However, he tries to survive long enough for his insurance policy to kick in, so that his daughter can receive the benefits.

As a new Ice Age descends on the planet, people are compelled to take shelter in underground colonies. When Colony-7 loses contact with the only other surviving settlement, Colony-5, they set out through the frozen terrain to investigate. After reaching Colony-5, as they encounter a savage threat much worse than Ice Age; they must fight to save themselves and also, Colony-5 survivors.

Mae lands a job at a company known as The Circle, which is one of the biggest tech companies in the world. When she gets involved in an experiment that could change the world, she realizes that it will have adverse consequences on humanity. 

In this second installment of the Spy Kids series, we find Carmen and Juni Cortez facing fierce competition from Gary and Gerti Giggles. Their father, Donnagon Giggles, has become the director of the OSS by deceit and now wants to steal the “Transmooker” so that he can rule the world. To retrieve the device, the Cortez siblings must now travel to a mysterious island.

In order to rescue his sister trapped inside, Juni Cortez decides to play a virtual reality-based game which is designed by the Toymaker. 

This action adventure comedy film tells the story of a young boy named Alan, who is studying at a boarding school and dreams of becoming a pilot. When his entire family is made prisoner by an evil mastermind, it is up to young Alan to save the day.

The short is about the surreal music video for the Barnes & Barnes song ‘Fish Head.’ Bill Paxton directed and appeared in it with singers Bill Mumy and Robert Haimer, and Dr. Demento in a cameo. Paxton’s character attends a fish heads’ party, waters a flourishing fish heads garden, takes it to movie, and the fish heads also wear cowboy hats. 

A film based on the life of Francis Ouimet, the first amateur golfer to win the US Open. Coming from a working-class immigrant family, and aspiring to win golf-championship, Ouimet starts as caddie and practices his game whenever he gets time, but faces class-prejudice and his father’s disapproval. In 1913, he gets a chance to play against his idol, British golfer Harry Vardon, and wins the US Open. 

Wesley Doyle, detective-in-charge of the ‘God’s Hands’ serial murders, is shocked when youngster Fenton Meiks reveals that his fanatically religious widower father received a vision telling him to ‘destroy demons residing in humans.’ Though Fenton detested, he couldn’t go against father, while younger brother Adam hero-worshipped father, and after father’s death, continues as ‘God’s Hands.’ But is it really as it appears?

The short is about the surreal music video for the Barnes & Barnes song ‘Fish Head.’ Bill Paxton directed and appeared in it with singers Bill Mumy and Robert Haimer, and Dr. Demento in a cameo. Paxton’s character attends a fish heads’ party, waters a flourishing fish heads garden, takes it to movie, and the fish heads also wear cowboy hats. 

This action comedy film tells us the story of three women who begin a crime spree, after their family farm was taken off them by corrupt authorities.