Movies by Kurt Russell
As part of the cast:
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Django Unchained (2012)
Cast: Jamie Foxx, Samuel L. Jackson, Leonardo DiCaprio …
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
Accompanied by a German bounty hunter, a freed slave named Django travels across America to free his wife from a sadistic plantation owner. Quentin Tarantino directs this modern-day spaghetti Western.
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Touchback (2011)
Cast: Brian Presley, Kurt Russell, Melanie Lynskey …
Directed by: Don Handfield
Fifteen years after suffering a career-ending injury in the state football championship, Scott gets a chance to go back in time and change the outcome. Eventually, he turns to the team's…
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Grindhouse: Death Proof (2007)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Rosario Dawson, Vanessa Ferlito …
Directed by: Quentin Tarantino
In this thriller from Quentin Tarantino, a tough-talking, psychotic serial murderer transforms his Dodge Charger into an indestructible weapon, then climbs behind the wheel of his well-oiled…
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Poseidon (2006)
Cast: Richard Dreyfuss, Josh Lucas, Emmy Rossum …
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
Battling the elements once again, Wolfgang Petersen (The Perfect Storm) re-creates Ronald Neame's 1972 action classic with help from an ensemble cast that includes Kurt Russell, Richard…
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Sky High (2005)
Cast: Michael Angarano, Kurt Russell, Kelly Preston …
Directed by: Mike Mitchell
Will Stronghold -- the son of two superheroes known as the Commander and Jetstream -- is the only kid at Sky High who hasn't developed superpowers yet, which means he may be relegated to…
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Dreamer (2005)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Dakota Fanning, Elisabeth Shue …
Directed by: John Gatins
Down-and-out horse trainer Ben Crane rescues a once-great racehorse that's been severely injured. Buoyed by the unwavering faith of his daughter, he sets out to win the Breeders'…
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Miracle (2004)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Patricia Clarkson, Noah Emmerich …
Directed by: Gavin O'Connor
Focused on achieving the impossible -- defeating the Soviet Union's unbeaten hockey team at the 1980 Winter Olympics -- brash U.S. hockey coach Herb Brooks unites a motley group of…
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John Carpenter: The Man and His Movies (2004)
Cast: John Carpenter, Jamie Lee Curtis, Kurt Russell …
John Carpenter's impressive reputation as a gifted director has made him one of the horror genre's biggest success stories. With talents not limited to directing (he's also a…
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Dark Blue (2002)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Scott Speedman, Michael Michele …
Directed by: Ron Shelton
Days before the acquittal of white police officers in the beating of black motorist Rodney King, a brutal Los Angeles cop under investigation for corruption and his rookie partner are…
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Interstate 60 (2002)
Cast: James Marsden, Gary Oldman, Chris Cooper …
Directed by: Bob Gale
In this highly unusual road flick, a man (James Marsden) in search of answers to life's great mysteries takes his quest on Interstate 60, a make-believe freeway that leads him to…
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3000 Miles to Graceland (2001)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kevin Costner, Courteney Cox …
Directed by: Demian Lichtenstein
Kevin Costner and Kurt Russell play a pair of con men who rip off the Riviera Hotel in Las Vegas during a convention for Elvis impersonators. But even as they work together, each plots a way…
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Vanilla Sky (2001)
Cast: Tom Cruise, Penélope Cruz, Cameron Diaz …
Directed by: Cameron Crowe
David Aames (Tom Cruise) has it all: wealth, good looks and a gorgeous woman (Cameron Diaz) on his arm. But just when he's found true love with warmhearted Sofia (Penélope Cruz),…
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Soldier (1998)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Gary Busey, Jason Scott Lee …
Directed by: Paul W.S. Anderson
Director Paul W.S. Anderson's trippy, futuristic science-fiction film follows a cadre of men, born and bred to be shock troops in battle, who are made obsolete by a new race of…
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Breakdown (1997)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kathleen Quinlan, J.T. Walsh …
Directed by: Jonathan Mostow
When his SUV breaks down on a remote Southwestern road, Jeff Taylor (Kurt Russell) lets his wife, Amy (Kathleen Quinlan), hitch a ride with a trucker (J.T. Walsh) to get help. When she…
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Escape from L.A. (1996)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Steve Buscemi, Peter Fonda …
Directed by: John Carpenter
Kurt Russell reprises his role as antihero Snake Plissken. This time, a cataclysmic temblor hits Los Angeles, turning it into an island. The president (Cliff Robertson) views the quake as a…
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Executive Decision (1996)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Steven Seagal, Halle Berry …
Directed by: Stuart Baird
When terrorists hijack a 747 and turn it into a nerve gas bomb aimed at Washington, D.C., commandos use an experimental plane to try to board the jetliner while it's in flight. If they…
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Stargate (1994)
Cast: Kurt Russell, James Spader, Alexis Cruz …
Directed by: Roland Emmerich
Dr. Daniel Jackson, a scholar of ancient hieroglyphics, signs on to help the Air Force unlock the mystery of a stone archway that's really a portal to another universe. There, they…
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Tombstone (1993)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Val Kilmer, Bill Paxton …
Directed by: George P. Cosmatos
Legendary marshal Wyatt Earp joins his brothers to pursue their collective fortune in the thriving mining town of Tombstone. Earp and his notorious pal Doc Holliday are called into action…
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Unlawful Entry (1992)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Ray Liotta, Madeleine Stowe …
Directed by: Jonathan Kaplan
After a robbery attempt on their home, the Carrs (Madeline Stowe and Kurt Russell) have much more than a helping hand in L.A. police officer Pete Davis (Ray Liotta). Look closer into…
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Captain Ron (1992)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Martin Short, Mary Kay Place …
Directed by: Thom Eberhardt
Martin Harvey (Martin Short) is a stressed-out executive who decides it's time to get away from it all and take a Caribbean cruise on his family's newly inherited sailboat.…
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Backdraft (1991)
Cast: Kurt Russell, William Baldwin, Robert De Niro …
Directed by: Ron Howard
They say a blast of flames can take a life ... and hide a secret. But now firemen brothers Brian and Stephen McCaffrey (William Baldwin and Kurt Russell) are battling each other over past…
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Tango & Cash (1989)
Cast: Sylvester Stallone, Kurt Russell, Teri Hatcher …
Directed by: Andrei Konchalovsky
When narcotics officers -- and polar opposites -- Ray Tango and Gabe Cash are framed and wind up in prison, they're tortured by the thugs of the drug lord who put them there. But watch…
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Winter People (1989)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges …
Directed by: Ted Kotcheff
In North Carolina during the Great Depression, widower Wayland Jackson (Kurt Russell) moves to a small mountain town with his daughter. He meets Collie Wright (Kelly McGillis), a young woman…
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Tequila Sunrise (1988)
Cast: Mel Gibson, Michelle Pfeiffer, Kurt Russell …
Directed by: Robert Towne
Veteran screenwriter Robert Towne (Chinatown, Swing Shift) wrote and directed this complex thriller with a superb cast. When two unlikely friends, Lt. Nick Frescia (Kurt Russell) and drug…
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Overboard (1987)
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Edward Herrmann …
Directed by: Garry Marshall
Heiress Joanna Stayton hires carpenter Dean Proffitt to build a closet on her yacht -- and refuses to pay him for the project when it's done. But after Joanna accidentally falls…
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The Best of Times (1986)
Cast: Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed …
Directed by: Roger Spottiswoode
In 1972, the Taft High School football team challenged its archrival in a game to end all games -- and might have won if Jack "Butterfingers" Dundee (Robin Williams) hadn't dropped the…
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Big Trouble in Little China (1986)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Kim Cattrall, Dennis Dun …
Directed by: John Carpenter
When a 2,000-year-old magician kidnaps his friend's fiancée, two-fisted trucker Jack Burton and sexy attorney Gracie Law must navigate a shadowy world filled with supernatural creatures…
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The Mean Season (1985)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Mariel Hemingway, Richard Jordan …
Directed by: Phillip Borsos
Miami newspaper reporter Malcolm Anderson (Kurt Russell) is fed up with writing about murder. But just when he's about to hand in his resignation, he receives a surprising call from the…
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Swing Shift (1984)
Cast: Goldie Hawn, Kurt Russell, Christine Lahti …
Directed by: Jonathan Demme
During World War II, a young woman (Goldie Hawn) takes a Rosie the Riveter-type job on a home-front factory assembly line while her husband is away defending democracy. Directed by Jonathan…
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Silkwood (1983)
Cast: Meryl Streep, Kurt Russell, Cher …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
While working at a nuclear power plant, Karen Silkwood becomes heavily involved in union work, but her evidence of the company's safety violations may never make it to the right people.
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The Thing (1982)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Wilford Brimley, Richard A. Dysart …
Directed by: John Carpenter
Scientists working in Antarctica are forced to abandon their research after a helicopter crashes near their camp, bringing a lone dog into their midst. But the plot thickens when the…
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The Fox and the Hound (1981)
Cast: Mickey Rooney, Kurt Russell, Pearl Bailey …
Directed by: Ted Berman, Richard Rich, Art Stevens …
Everyone knows foxes and hounds don't get along. But no one told orphaned fox Tod and bloodhound puppy Copper (voiced by Mickey Rooney and Kurt Russell as adults), who became fast…
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Escape from New York (1981)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Adrienne Barbeau, Lee Van Cleef …
Directed by: John Carpenter
Soaring crime rates prompt the United States to turn New York City into a maximum-security prison -- which is precisely where the U.S. president (Donald Pleasence) lands when he's forced…
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Used Cars (1980)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Jack Warden, Michael McKean …
Directed by: Robert Zemeckis
Used-car salesman Rudy Russo (Kurt Russell) needs money to run for State Senate. His boss, Luke (Jack Warden), loans him the cash, but then falls victim to an "accident" orchestrated by his…
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Elvis (1979)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Shelley Winters, Bing Russell …
Directed by: John Carpenter
Kurt Russell earned an Emmy nod for his portrayal of hip-swiveling rock god Elvis Presley in this made-for-television biopic that also earned nominations for its cinematography and makeup,…
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The Longest Drive (1976)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Tim Matheson, Meegan King …
Directed by: Bernard McEveety
Separated as boys, the recently reunited Baudine brothers (Kurt Russell and Tim Matheson) find common ground in their search for their long-lost sister. But a host of obstacles serves to…
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The Strongest Man in the World (1975)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Eve Arden …
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
Science geek Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) is back in this sequel to The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes and Now You See Him, Now You Don't. Back at Medfield College, Dexter is trying to come…
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Charley and the Angel (1973)
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Cloris Leachman, Harry Morgan …
Directed by: Vincent McEveety
In his last Disney feature, Fred MacMurray plays Charley Appleby, a small-town shopkeeper trying to keep his business and family afloat during the Depression. What Charley fails to see,…
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Now You See Him, Now You Don't (1972)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn …
Directed by: Robert Butler
Science major Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) and his buddies Schuyler (Michael McGreevey) and Debbie (Joyce Menges) create a spray that makes one appear to be invisible. Desperate to get his…
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The Barefoot Executive (1971)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Joe Flynn, Harry Morgan …
Directed by: Robert Butler
Upon learning that his girlfriend's pet chimp has the uncanny ability to predict the success of television shows, Steven Post (Kurt Russell), a mailroom clerk working at a TV network,…
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The Computer Wore Tennis Shoes (1969)
Cast: Kurt Russell, Cesar Romero, Joe Flynn …
Directed by: Robert Butler
When an electrical snafu occurs in Medfield College's new computer system, dimwitted undergraduate Dexter Riley (Kurt Russell) receives a shock that turns him into a genius. Not only…
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The Horse in the Gray Flannel Suit (1968)
Cast: Dean Jones, Diane Baker, Lloyd Bochner …
Directed by: Norman Tokar
Harried ad executive Frederick Bolton (Dean Jones) is in a quandary: His daughter desperately wants a horse, but he simply can't afford it; on top of that, his boss tells him he must…
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The One and Only, Genuine, Original Family Band (1968)
Cast: Walter Brennan, Buddy Ebsen, John Davidson …
Directed by: Michael O'Herlihy
This Disney musical set in the 1880s follows the Bower family -- led by cantankerous patriarch Renssaeler Bower (Walter Brennan) -- who becomes a band to perform on behalf of their favorite…
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Follow Me, Boys! (1966)
Cast: Fred MacMurray, Vera Miles, David Bailey …
Directed by: Norman Tokar
A mild-mannered man, Lemuel (Fred MacMurray), finds love in a small town in this charming family film. The object of his affection is the community's sweet maiden, Vida (Vera Miles), who…