Movies by Dustin Hoffman
As part of the cast:
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Kung Fu Panda 2 (2011)
Cast: Jack Black, Angelina Jolie, Gary Oldman …
Directed by: Jennifer Yuh
As the legendary Dragon Warrior, Po (Jack Black), the kung fu panda, dutifully guards the Valley of Peace alongside his allies the Furious Five. When a frightful new enemy emerges, Po and…
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Barney's Version (2011)
Cast: Paul Giamatti, Rosamund Pike, Minnie Driver …
Directed by: Richard J. Lewis
Golden Globe winner Paul Giamatti stars as Barney Panofsky, a Jewish Canadian television producer who reflects in flashbacks on three strange decades -- and three wives -- in this adaptation…
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Luck (2011)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Farina, Nick Nolte …
In this HBO drama series, Dustin Hoffman stars as a sophisticated gambler and street-smart ex-con who involves his longtime chauffeur and enforcer, Gus (Dennis Farina), in a complicated…
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Little Fockers (2010)
Cast: Ben Stiller, Robert De Niro, Jessica Alba …
Directed by: Paul Weitz
Greg Focker (Ben Stiller) has finally won the approval of his intimidating father-in-law, retired CIA agent Jack Byrnes (Robert De Niro). But when Greg and wife Pam (Teri Polo) add a pair of…
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Jews and Baseball: An American Love Story (2010)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Sandy Koufax, Al Rosen …
Directed by: Peter Miller
Actor Dustin Hoffman narrates this decade-spanning documentary that highlights the contributions of Jewish Americans to the most American sport of them all: baseball. Highlights include a…
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Against the Tide (2009)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Asner, Robert Cait …
Directed by: Richard Trank
Dustin Hoffman narrates this sobering documentary about the desperate crusade mounted by Zionist activist Peter Bergson during World War II to rescue the millions of European Jews trapped in…
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Kung Fu Panda (2008)
Cast: Jack Black, Dustin Hoffman, Angelina Jolie …
Directed by: Mark Osborne, John Stevenson
When the Valley of Peace is threatened, lazy Po the panda discovers his destiny as the "chosen one" and trains to become a kung fu hero, but transforming the unsleek slacker into a brave…
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The Tale of Despereaux (2008)
Cast: Matthew Broderick, Dustin Hoffman, Emma Watson …
Directed by: Sam Fell, Robert Stevenhagen
This star-studded adaptation of Kate DiCamillo's Newberry Medal-winning book tells the tale of an unusually gifted mouse named Despereaux (voiced by Matthew Broderick) who falls in love…
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Visual Acoustics: The Modernism of Julius Shulman (2008)
Cast: Julius Shulman, Dustin Hoffman, Tom Ford …
Directed by: Eric Bricker
Filmmaker Eric Bricker directs this fascinating documentary about the life and times of architectural photographer Julius Shulman, whose work is known for helping to launch the careers of…
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Last Chance Harvey (2008)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Emma Thompson, Kathy Baker …
Directed by: Joel Hopkins
Dustin Hoffman stars in this romantic drama as struggling jingle writer Harvey Shine, an aging father who risks losing his job to attend his daughter's London wedding, only to discover…
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Mr. Magorium's Wonder Emporium (2007)
Cast: Natalie Portman, Dustin Hoffman, Jason Bateman …
Directed by: Zach Helm
When the 243-year-old Mr. Magorium (Dustin Hoffman) discovers his health is failing, he turns over his fantastical toy store to his manager, Molly Mahoney (Natalie Portman), a talented…
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Stranger than Fiction (2006)
Cast: Will Ferrell, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman …
Directed by: Marc Forster
As best-selling novelist Kay Eiffel (Emma Thompson) struggles with how to kill off her main character, IRS auditor Harold Crick (Will Ferrell) begins hearing her voice in his head and slowly…
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (2006)
Cast: Ben Whishaw, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Rickman …
Directed by: Tom Tykwer
Born with an acute sense of smell, Jean-Baptiste Grenouille resorts to dark deeds in creating a perfume that captures the essence of a woman in this 18th-century thriller based on Patrick…
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The Lost City (2005)
Cast: Andy Garcia, Dustin Hoffman, Tomas Milian …
Directed by: Andy Garcia
Those seeking a scorching time in Havana know they should head for the club run by impresario Fico Fellove (Andy Garcia). But the party's over when political strife overtakes Cuban life,…
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Paul McCartney: The Music and Animation Collection (2004)
Cast: Paul McCartney, Dustin Hoffman
Ex-Beatle bassist Paul McCartney's legendary songs get the "animated" treatment in this unique film narrated by Dustin Hoffman. Sir Paul has produced hit pop songs for decades (as a…
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Finding Neverland (2004)
Cast: Johnny Depp, Kate Winslet, Julie Christie …
Directed by: Marc Forster
Peter Pan and the denizens of Neverland have captured the hearts and minds of J.M. Barrie's readers. But this Oscar-winning film reveals how the imaginative author envisioned a world…
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I Heart Huckabees (2004)
Cast: Jason Schwartzman, Jude Law, Mark Wahlberg …
Directed by: David O. Russell
When a mystery needs to be solved, and it's not a whodunit but rather a maze involving complex emotions, it requires the expertise of intellectual -- and perhaps slightly kooky --…
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Meet the Fockers (2004)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Ben Stiller, Dustin Hoffman …
Directed by: Jay Roach
In this all-star sequel to the hit comedy Meet the Parents, hard-to-crack ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife, Dina, head for the warmer climes of Florida to meet son-in-law-to-be Greg…
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Confidence (2003)
Cast: Edward Burns, Rachel Weisz, Andy Garcia …
Directed by: James Foley
Con man Jake Vig just might have swindled the wrong guy in Lionel Dolby. Soon after the gig, two of his cronies turn up dead, and he discovers that Dolby is the accountant of a crime boss…
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Runaway Jury (2003)
Cast: John Cusack, Rachel Weisz, Gene Hackman …
Directed by: Gary Fleder
In this drama based on John Grisham's best-selling novel, Nick Easter (John Cusack) gets himself on the jury of a landmark case against a gun manufacturer and, as the foreman, tries to…
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Moonlight Mile (2002)
Cast: Jake Gyllenhaal, Dustin Hoffman, Susan Sarandon …
Directed by: Brad Silberling
Susan Sarandon and Dustin Hoffman co-star as the grieving mother and father of a recently deceased girl who take in their daughter's fiancé (Jake Gyllenhaal) because he's the…
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Festival Pass with Chris Gore (2002)
Cast: Chris Gore, Maria Bello, Dustin Hoffman …
Directed by: Mary Jo Intorcio
Festival Pass takes cineastes all over the map in search of the newest and the best movies screened at various film festivals. Movie guru Chris Gore, who also edits Film Threat Magazine,…
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Goldwyn: The Man and His Movies (2001)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman
The life and work of Samuel Goldwyn, a Polish-born glove salesman who became one of Hollywood's greatest independent producers, is remembered in this classy documentary created for the…
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Directors: Wolfgang Petersen (2000)
Cast: Tom Berenger, Wolfgang Petersen, Dustin Hoffman …
Since his breakout 1981 hit Das Boot, Wolfgang Petersen has risen to become one of Hollywood's most in-demand filmmakers. Featuring interviews with actors from Petersen's biggest…
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The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)
Cast: Milla Jovovich, Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway …
Directed by: Luc Besson
Director Luc Besson's visceral historical drama captures the life, moral convictions and death of the young French girl who came to be known as Joan of Arc (Milla Jovovich). Battling the…
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Sphere (1998)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Samuel L. Jackson, Sharon Stone …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
When a team of scientists (Dustin Hoffman, Sharon Stone and Samuel L. Jackson) begins to investigate a giant spacecraft that's come to rest 1,000 feet under the sea, they discover that…
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Wag the Dog (1997)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert De Niro, Anne Heche …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
When the president is caught in a sex scandal less than two weeks before the election, White House spinmaster Conrad Brean (Robert De Niro) creates a phony war with the help of Hollywood…
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Mad City (1997)
Cast: John Travolta, Dustin Hoffman, Alan Alda …
Directed by: Costa-Gavras
Sam Baily (John Travolta) is an out-of-work museum security guard about to make a rash move. Max Brackett (Dustin Hoffman) is a television reporter stuck in a rut of boring, routine stories.…
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Sleepers (1996)
Cast: Robert De Niro, Brad Pitt, Jason Patric …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
In this drama based on characters in Lorenzo Carcaterra's controversial book, four boys from Hell's Kitchen enter a reformatory where a cruel guard (Kevin Bacon) abuses them. Years…
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American Buffalo (1996)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Dennis Franz, Sean Nelson …
Directed by: Michael Corrente
Donny (Dennis Franz), the owner of an inner-city junk shop, holds daily court over an urban teenager (Sean Nelson) and a disheveled has-been (Dustin Hoffman). In a desperate grasp at a better…
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Outbreak (1995)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Kevin Spacey, Morgan Freeman …
Directed by: Wolfgang Petersen
As Army virologist Sam Daniels (Dustin Hoffman) strives to thwart a global biological meltdown in the form of a killer virus that has infested a California community, he must also battle…
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Hero (1992)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Geena Davis, Andy Garcia …
Directed by: Stephen Frears
A plane crashes. A mystery man emerges from the wreckage and saves passengers left and right. Who is he? That's what TV reporter Gale Gayley (Geena Davis) wants to find out, especially…
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Hook (1991)
Cast: Robin Williams, Dustin Hoffman, Julia Roberts …
Directed by: Steven Spielberg
The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up -- Peter Pan -- did just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer (Robin Williams) whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids, in this…
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Billy Bathgate (1991)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Nicole Kidman, Loren Dean …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Dustin Hoffman, Bruce Willis and Golden Globe nominee Nicole Kidman star in this action-packed gangster epic detailing the rise and fall of notorious mobster Dutch Schultz (Hoffman) as seen…
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Opus & Bill: A Wish for Wings That Work (1991)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Frank Welker …
Directed by: Skip Jones
Overcome with the urge to fly, wistful penguin Opus asks Santa for a pair of wings and, in the interim, tries every way possible to get airborne -- including therapy. Will Opus get his…
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Dick Tracy (1990)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Madonna, Al Pacino …
Directed by: Warren Beatty
Legendary police detective Dick Tracy is the only man tough enough to take on gangster boss Big Boy Caprice and his band of menacing mobsters. Dedicated to his work but also devoted to his…
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Family Business (1989)
Cast: Sean Connery, Dustin Hoffman, Matthew Broderick …
Directed by: Sidney Lumet
Looking to net a cool million by pinching some biological research vials from a lab, Adam McMullen (Matthew Broderick) recruits his grandfather, Jessie (Sean Connery) -- an unabashed lifelong…
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Rain Man (1988)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Tom Cruise, Valeria Golino …
Directed by: Barry Levinson
Fast-talking yuppie Charlie Babbitt is forced to slow down when he meets a brother he never knew he had, an autistic savant named Raymond (Dustin Hoffman, in an Oscar-winning role) who's…
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Ishtar (1987)
Cast: Warren Beatty, Dustin Hoffman, Isabelle Adjani …
Directed by: Elaine May
When their goldbrick agent books a gig in -- of all places -- the Middle East, foundering American lounge singers Chuck (Dustin Hoffman) and Lyle (Warren Beatty) surprisingly garner success…
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Death of a Salesman (1985)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Kate Reid …
Directed by: Volker Schlondorff
Dustin Hoffman won an Emmy for his first-rate performance as embittered traveling salesman Willy Loman, who's forced to dispense with delusions of success and come to grips with his…
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Death of a Salesman / Private Conversations (1985)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, John Malkovich, Arthur Miller …
Directed by: Christian Blackwood
The 1985 television adaptation (starring Dustin Hoffman as the ill-fated everyman Willy Loman) of Arthur Miller's play "Death of a Salesman" and a making-of documentary on the production…
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Tootsie (1982)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jessica Lange, Teri Garr …
Directed by: Sydney Pollack
Few actors go as far to bag a part as Michael Dorsey (Dustin Hoffman), who transforms himself into a woman to prove he can get hired on a soap opera. But Michael has an enviable problem when…
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Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Justin Henry …
Directed by: Robert Benton
Ted (Dustin Hoffman) is a career-driven yuppie -- until he finds out his dissatisfied wife (Meryl Streep) is leaving him and their 6-year-old son. But just as Ted begins to love being a…
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Straight Time (1978)
Cast: Harry Dean Stanton, Gary Busey, Theresa Russell …
Directed by: Ulu Grosbard
Career burglar Max Dembo (Dustin Hoffman) tries to go straight when he's released from prison, but overzealous parole officer Earl Frank (M. Emmet Walsh) helps ensure he's soon back…
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All the President's Men (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Robert Redford, Jack Warden …
Directed by: Alan J. Pakula
The film that launched a thousand journalism school students, All the President's Men chronicles how the work of reporters Bob Woodward (Robert Redford) and Carl Bernstein (Dustin…
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Marathon Man (1976)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
When his CIA agent brother (Roy Scheider) is killed, graduate student Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman) finds himself trapped in a deadly game with a Nazi fugitive (Laurence Olivier), a sadist who…
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Lenny (1974)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Valerie Perrine, Jan Miner …
Directed by: Bob Fosse
Dustin Hoffman stars as the notorious Lenny Bruce in director Bob Fosse's dramatic biopic chronicling the short life and career of the controversial stand-up comedian, which garnered six…
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Papillon (1973)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Steve McQueen, Don Gordon …
Directed by: Franklin J. Schaffner
Caged for a murder he didn't commit, petty thief Henri "Papillon" Charriere (Steve McQueen) finds himself trapped within the walls of a French penal colony, determined to escape, in this…
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Alfredo, Alfredo (1973)
Cast: Pietro Germi, Dustin Hoffman, Stefania Sandrelli …
Directed by: Pietro Germi
In an odd bit of casting, Dustin Hoffman plays timid Italian bank clerk Alfredo Sbisà, who's married to a sexy shrew (Stefania Sandrelli) in director Pietro Germi's send-up of…
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Straw Dogs (1971)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Susan George, Peter Vaughan …
Directed by: Sam Peckinpah
Astrophysicist David Sumner (Dustin Hoffman) and wife, Amy (Susan George), move to England to get away from the violence in America. But the Sumners learn that things are no better on the…
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Little Big Man (1970)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Faye Dunaway, Chief Dan George …
Directed by: Arthur Penn
Dustin Hoffman stars as Jack, a 121-year-old man who recounts a long and colorful life in the Wild West, including being raised by Native Americans. His recollections form a Western epic that…
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Midnight Cowboy (1969)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Jon Voight, Sylvia Miles …
Directed by: John Schlesinger
To earn cash as a freelance sex stud and work toward his dream of becoming a kept man, hayseed hustler Joe Buck heads to New York City, where an improbable friendship blossoms when he meets…
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John and Mary (1969)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Mia Farrow, Michael Tolan …
Directed by: Peter Yates
Groundbreaking and controversial at the time it was released in 1969, this award-winning slice-of-life drama stars Dustin Hoffman and Mia Farrow as two New Yorkers who meet at a singles bar…
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Madigan's Millions (1968)
Cast: Dustin Hoffman, Elsa Martinelli, Cesar Romero …
Directed by: Stanley Prager
In his first lead role, Dustin Hoffman portrays Internal Revenue Service agent Jason Fister. After deported mobster Mike Madigan (Cesar Romero) kicks the bucket in Italy, the U.S. Department…
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The Graduate (1967)
Cast: Anne Bancroft, Dustin Hoffman, Katharine Ross …
Directed by: Mike Nichols
Dustin Hoffman (in his first major film role) turns in a landmark performance as a naïve college graduate who is seduced by a middle-aged neighbor (Anne Bancroft) but ends up falling in…
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The Star Wagon (1967)
Cast: Eileen Brennan, Richard Castellano, Orson Bean …
Just a year before making a name for himself with a breakthrough performance in The Graduate, a young Dustin Hoffman appeared in this made-for-television adaptation of Maxwell Anderson's…
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The Journey of the Fifth Horse (1966)
Cast: Susan Anspach, Dustin Hoffman, Charlotte Rae …
Dustin Hoffman stars in this television adaptation of Ivan Turgenev's tale about Dmitri Zoditch, a simple manuscript reader at a publishing house whose grand dreams don't square…
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Naked City (1958)
Cast: Harry Bellaver, Lawrence Dobkin, Horace McMahon …
Filmed against a gritty New York City backdrop, this documentary-style police drama gets up close and personal with the victims and criminals who cross paths with the detectives of the…