Bruce Willis

Actor · 81 movies + 15 cameos · IMDb

The early years were better

Best movie

8.8

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Worst movie

2.5

Cosmic Sin (2021)

First 5 to latest 5

−3.2

6.6 → 3.4 on average

Average rating

6.0

15.7M votes in total

IMDb rating per movie

Cameos

The best rated of the 81 movies Bruce Willis starred in is Pulp Fiction (1994), at 8.8 on IMDb, and the worst is Cosmic Sin (2021), at 2.5. The first 5 average 6.6 and the latest 5 3.4, down by 3.2. Together they average 6.0, from 15.7M votes in total. 15 cameos, like Split (2016), aren't counted.

Movie by movie

Movie	Role	Released	Votes	Rating	Change
Prince of the CityCameo	as Extra (uncredited)	1981	10.9K	7.4
The VerdictCameo	as Courtroom Observer (uncredited)	1982	51.5K	7.7
Blind Date	as Walter Davis	1987	26.3K	6.0
Die Hard	as John McClane	1988	1M	8.2	+2.2
Look Who's Talking	as Mikey (voice)	1989	90.8K	6.0	−2.2
The Bonfire of the Vanities	as Peter Fallow	1990	27.7K	5.6	−0.4
Die Hard 2	as John McClane	1990	410.7K	7.2	+1.6
Look Who's Talking Too	as Mikey (voice)	1990	51.6K	4.7	−2.5
Billy Bathgate	as Bo Weinberg	1991	13.7K	5.9	+1.2
Hudson Hawk	as Eddie 'Hudson Hawk' Hawkins	1991	65.4K	5.7	−0.2
The Last Boy Scout	as Joe Hallenbeck	1991	122.5K	7.0	+1.3
Mortal Thoughts	as James Urbanski	1991	10.7K	5.8	−1.2
Death Becomes Her	as Dr. Ernest Menville	1992	152.7K	6.7	+0.9
The PlayerCameo	as Bruce Willis	1992	73.3K	7.5
Loaded Weapon 1Cameo	as John McClane (uncredited)	1993	53.9K	6.2
Striking Distance	as Tom Hardy	1993	53.9K	5.9	−0.8
Color of Night	as Dr. Bill Capa	1994	27.8K	5.2	−0.7
Nobody's Fool	as Carl Roebuck	1994	25.1K	7.3	+2.1
North	as Benevolent advisors / Narrator voice	1994	15.8K	4.6	−2.7
Pulp FictionBest	as Butch Coolidge	1994	2.5M	8.8	+4.2
Die Hard with a Vengeance	as John McClane	1995	434.1K	7.6	−1.2
Four RoomsCameo	as Leo (uncredited)	1995	117.8K	6.7
12 Monkeys	as James Cole	1995	685.8K	8.0	+0.4
Beavis and Butt-Head Do America	as Muddy (voice)	1996	63.4K	6.8	−1.2
Last Man Standing	as John Smith	1996	63K	6.4	−0.4
The Fifth Element	as Korben Dallas	1997	553.2K	7.6	+1.2
The Jackal	as The Jackal	1997	132.4K	6.4	−1.2
Armageddon	as Harry S. Stamper	1998	484.8K	6.7	+0.3
Mercury Rising	as Art Jeffries	1998	82.1K	6.1	−0.6
The Siege	as Major-General William Devereaux	1998	84K	6.4	+0.3
The Story of Us	as Ben Jordan	1999	25.3K	6.0	−0.4
The Sixth Sense	as Malcolm Crowe	1999	1.2M	8.2	+2.2
The Whole Nine Yards	as Jimmy 'Tulipán' Tudeski	2000	136.9K	6.7	−1.5
Unbreakable	as David Dunn	2000	472.5K	7.3	+0.6
The Kid	as Russ Duritz	2000	46.8K	6.1	−1.2
Bandits	as Joseph Blake	2001	75.1K	6.5	+0.4
Hart's War	as Col. William A. McNamara	2002	58.3K	6.4	−0.1
Charlie's Angels: Full ThrottleCameo	as William Rose Bailey (uncredited)	2003	139K	5.0
Tears of the Sun	as Lieutenant A.K. Waters	2003	137.8K	6.6	+0.2
The Whole Ten Yards	as Jimmy Tudeski	2004	61.2K	5.5	−1.1
Ocean's TwelveCameo	as Bruce Willis	2004	443K	6.5
Hostage	as Jeff Talley	2005	117K	6.5	+1.0
Sin City	as Hartigan	2005	824.9K	8.0	+1.5
Over the Hedge	as RJ (voice)	2006	205.9K	6.7	−1.3
Lucky Number Slevin	as Mr. Goodkat	2006	342.1K	7.7	+1.0
Alpha Dog	as Sonny Truelove	2006	112.5K	6.9	−0.8
16 Blocks	as Jack Mosley	2006	139.4K	6.6	−0.3
Fast Food Nation	as Harry Rydell	2006	26.3K	6.3	−0.3
The Astronaut FarmerCameo	as Doug Masterson (uncredited)	2006	23.9K	6.3
Live Free or Die Hard	as John McClane	2007	438.3K	7.1	+0.8
Perfect Stranger	as Harrison Hill	2007	54.4K	5.7	−1.4
Grindhouse	as Muldoon (segment "Planet Terror")	2007	198K	7.5	+1.8
Nancy DrewCameo	as Bruce (uncredited)	2007	22.7K	5.9
Planet Terror	as Lieutenant Muldoon	2007	235.1K	7.0	−0.5
What Just Happened	as Bruce Willis	2008	29.5K	5.6	−1.4
Shine a LightCameo	as Self - Concert Audience (uncredited)	2008	12.8K	7.1
Assassination of a High School President	as Principal Jared T. Kirkpatrick	2008	16.8K	6.2	+0.6
Surrogates	as Tom Greer	2009	186K	6.3	+0.1
RED	as Frank Moses	2010	341.5K	7.0	+0.7
The ExpendablesCameo	as Mr. Church (uncredited)	2010	383.6K	6.4
I'm Still Here	as Self - Guest	2010	25.1K	6.1	−0.9
Cop Out	as Jimmy Monroe	2010	93K	5.5	−0.6
Set Up	as Biggs	2011	22.3K	4.4	−1.1
Catch .44	as Mel	2011	18.5K	4.6	+0.2
Lay the Favorite	as Dink Heimowitz	2012	12.6K	4.9	+0.3
Looper	as Old Joe	2012	633.8K	7.4	+2.5
The Cold Light of Day	as Martin	2012	41.6K	4.9	−2.5
Moonrise Kingdom	as Captain Sharp	2012	385.5K	7.7	+2.8
The Expendables 2	as Church	2012	337K	6.6	−1.1
Fire with Fire	as Mike Cella	2012	28.8K	5.6	−1.0
G.I. Joe: Retaliation	as Joe Colton	2013	194.3K	5.7	+0.1
A Good Day to Die Hard	as John McClane	2013	224.7K	5.2	−0.5
RED 2	as Frank Moses	2013	190.3K	6.6	+1.4
Sin City: A Dame to Kill For	as Hartigan	2014	180.3K	6.5	−0.1
The Prince	as Omar	2014	19.8K	4.6	−1.9
Rock the Kasbah	as Bombay Brian	2015	13.4K	5.5	+0.9
Vice	as Julian	2015	17.6K	4.2	−1.3
Extraction	as Leonard Turner	2015	12.5K	4.1	−0.1
Marauders	as Hubert	2016	25K	5.5	+1.4
Precious Cargo	as Eddie	2016	10.3K	4.6	−0.9
SplitCameo	as David Dunn (uncredited)	2016	633.2K	7.3
Once Upon a Time in Venice	as Steve	2017	22.3K	5.3	+0.7
First Kill	as Howell	2017	13.1K	5.0	−0.3
Death Wish	as Paul Kersey	2018	84.4K	6.3	+1.3
Acts of Violence	as Detective James Avery	2018	14.2K	5.3	−1.0
Motherless Brooklyn	as Frank Minna	2019	66.9K	6.8	+1.5
The Lego Movie 2: The Second PartCameo	as Bruce Willis (voice)	2019	87.3K	6.5
Glass	as David Dunn / The Overseer	2019	308.6K	6.6	−0.2
Between Two Ferns: The MovieCameo	as Bruce Willis (archive footage)	2019	39.6K	6.1
Trauma Center	as Lt. Det. Wakes	2019	12.2K	4.0	−2.6
Survive the Night	as Frank	2020	12.5K	4.0	±0.0
Hard Kill	as Chalmers	2020	19.9K	3.1	−0.9
Breach	as Clay Young	2020	21.1K	2.9	−0.2
Midnight in the Switchgrass	as Karl Helter	2021	13K	4.6	+1.7
Cosmic SinWorst	as James Ford	2021	16.2K	2.5	−2.1
SlyCameo	as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)	2023	13.3K	7.0

Movies with at least 10,000 votes on IMDb. Cameos, billed after the first 20 or uncredited, are listed but not counted.

Bruce Willis

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