Scene from ‘The Fifth Element’. EPC Between the 1980s and the early 2000s, Bruce Willis chaining one film success after another. It would be necessary to have lived under a stone or on another planet not to have seen any of the milestones starring the American actor, who this Wednesday it has been known that he is retiring from acting after being diagnosed of aphasia. We review here 10 essential films from the glorious era of Willis.