Bruce Willis: the actor's movies you can watch this weekend in streaming

“For Bruce's incredible fans, as a family, we want to share that our beloved Bruce has been experiencing some health problems and was recently diagnosed with aphasia, which is affecting his cognitive abilities.” This is how Rumer Willis, the actor's daughter, announced that this condition would take him away from acting.

Bruce Willis was part of a generation of actors who felt that television was a springboard to getting to the movies. That's how we met him for his lead in Moonlighting with Cybill Shepherd, and with this role he won everyone's hearts with his big smile and charisma.

The move to cinema definitively opened the doors of Hollywood for him and he became an international star, that place where few reach. Here is a tour of some of the films that marked their passage through the industry.

Hard to kill, in Star+

It was the film that launched him to success. Willis plays John McClane, a character that would become a classic over the years and the sequels he had. A rebel policeman who runs by his own rules who tries to get his wife back when she and her office mates are kidnapped by a group of wicked men on Christmas Day. It is for many “the Christmas movie par excellence”, although far from being the classic story of the time, and Willis proved that action was his genre.

Death suits him, on HBO Max

An incredibly told satire about the passage of time, the beauty and vulnerability of bodies, directed by Robert Zemeckis. Willis played a surgeon who promised eternal beauty: he was joined in the cast by Meryl Streep and Goldie Hawn, who gave life to Madelaine and Helen, two stars who wanted the potion of eternal beauty.

Violent Times (Pulp Fiction), on HBO Max

In this film by Quentin Tarantino, Willis played Butch, a boxer who loved himself. It raised more than $200 million, 25 times more than the initial $8 million budget. One of the classics of cinema.

Doce monos, en Prime Video

Directed by Terry Gilliam, in this film we saw Bruce as James Cole, a prisoner who volunteers to travel back in time to the past and thus learn the causes of how people are living in the future. Willis was accompanied in this film by Brad Pitt (who won an Oscar bid), Madeleine Stowe, Christopher Plummer, David Morse and Christopher Meloni.

Armageddon, en Star+

Perhaps one of the most emblematic of Willis's career to belong to the catastrophe cinema where the end of the world is left in the hands of his character when a meteorite threatens to impact Earth. Willis is Harry Stamper, an expert driller who is summoned by the US government and NASA to have him and a team of workers destroy the threatening meteorite. One of crying that marked an era.

Sixth Sense, in Star+

Directed by M. Night Shyamalan, the film had an impact on the industry and marked a before and after in horror films. Willis played a psychologist who takes care of a little boy (played by Haley Joel Osment), who claims to see dead people. While his character deals with his own demons, this thriller takes us to a supernatural universe that leaves us with our mouths open towards the end.

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