Movies starring Dustin Hoffman

Biography: 
Graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955. Went to Santa Monica City College where he dropped out after a year due to bad grades. But before he did, he took an acting course because he was told that "nobody flunks acting." Also received some training at Los Angeles Conservatory of Music. Decided to go into acting because he did not want to work or go into the service. Trained at The Pasadena  ...  show all 

Papillon (1973)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Biography | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Steve McQueen | Dustin Hoffman | Victor Jory | Don Gordon | Anthony Zerbe | Robert Deman | Woodrow Parfrey | Bill Mumy | George Coulouris | Ratna Assan | William Smithers | Val Avery | Gregory Sierra | Vic Tayback | Mills Watson
Directors: Franklin J. Schaffner
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Based on the true story of Henri Charriere, also known as Papillon, which is French for ‘butterfly’ (the character even sports a large tattoo of a butterfly. A petty criminal, Papillon is wrongly convicted of murder and sentenced to life in a French penal colony in ‘Guiane’ (French Guiana, South America). Papillon is determined to escape but attempt after attempt meets with difficulty, resulting in eventual recapture. He continues his attempts to escape despite incarcerations in solitary confinement as punishment.

The Lost City (2005)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Inés Sastre | Tomas Milian | Richard Bradford | Nestor Carbonell | Enrique Murciano | Dominik García-Lorido | Dustin Hoffman | Bill Murray | Lorena Feijóo | Steven Bauer | Juan Fernández | Jsu Garcia | William Marquez | Julio Oscar Mechoso
Directors: Andy Garcia
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In Havana, Cuba in the late 1950’s, a wealthy family, one of whose sons is a prominent nightclub owner, is caught in the violent transition from the oppressive regime of Batista to the Marxist government of Fidel Castro. Castro’s regime ultimately leads the nightclub owner to flee to New York.

Tootsie (1982)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Jessica Lange | Teri Garr | Dabney Coleman | Charles Durning | Bill Murray | George Gaynes | Geena Davis | Doris Belack | Ellen Foley | Peter Gatto | Lynne Thigpen | Ronald L. Schwary | Debra Mooney
Directors: Sydney Pollack
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Michael Dorsey is desperate; he can’t find a job. That is, until he gets a female role in a soap opera and becomes very famous. Of course, nobody knows that this new television star is a man… But, after a while, he falls in love with the leading actress of the series, and here is the big problem: how can he express his feelings, since she thinks that Michael is a woman?

Mad City (1997)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: John Travolta | Dustin Hoffman | Mia Kirshner | Alan Alda | Robert Prosky | Blythe Danner | William Atherton | Ted Levine | Tammy Lauren
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Sam Baily, upset over losing his job, takes a natural history museum hostage. Max Brackett, journalist, is in the museum when this occurs, and gets the scoop. The story spreads nation wide, and soon it is all anyone talks about. The story itself is the news, not the reason why or the real people behind it.

Meet the Fockers (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Robert De Niro | Ben Stiller | Dustin Hoffman | Barbra Streisand | Blythe Danner | Teri Polo | Owen Wilson | Spencer Pickren | Bradley Pickren | Alanna Ubach | Ray Santiago | Tim Blake Nelson | Shelley Berman | Kali Rocha | Dorie Barton
Directors: Jay Roach
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Having given permission to male nurse Greg Focker to marry his daughter, ex-CIA man Jack Byrnes and his wife travel to Miami to Greg’s parents, who this time around are Mr. and Mrs. Focker, who are as different from them as can be. As asked in the first movie, what sort of people name their son Gaylord M. Focker?

The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc (1999)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Biography | Drama | History | War
Countries: France
Actors: Milla Jovovich | Dustin Hoffman | Faye Dunaway | John Malkovich | Tchéky Karyo | Pascal Greggory | Vincent Cassel | Richard Ridings | Desmond Harrington | Timothy West | Rab Affleck | Stéphane Algoud | Edwin Apps | David Bailie
Directors: Luc Besson
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In 1412, a young girl called Jeanne is born in Domrémy, France. The times are hard: The Hunderd Years war with England has been going on since 1337, English knights and soldiers roam the country. Jeanne develops into a very religious young woman, she confesses several times a day. At the age of 13, she has her first vision and finds a sword. When coming home with it, she finds the English leveling her home town. Years after that, in 1428, she knows her mission is to be ridding France of the English and so sets out to meet Charles, the Dauphin. In his desperate military situation, he welcomes all help and gives the maiden a chance to prove her divine mission. After the successful liberation of Orléans and Reims, the Dauphin can be crowned traditionally in the cathedral of Reims - and does not need her anymore, since his wishes are satisfied. Jeanne d’Arc gets set up in his trap and is imprisoned by the Burgundians. In a trial against her under English law, she can’t be forced to tell about her divine visions she has had continuously since childhood. Being condemned of witchcraft and being considered as relapsed heretic, she is sentenced to death. Jeanne d’Arc is burnt alive in the marketplace of Rouen on May 30th, 1431, at only 19 years of age.

I Heart Huckabees (2004)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jason Schwartzman | Isabelle Huppert | Dustin Hoffman | Lily Tomlin | Jude Law | Mark Wahlberg | Naomi Watts | Angela Grillo | Ger Duany | Darlene Hunt | Kevin Dunn | Benny Hernandez | Richard Appel | Benjamin Nurick | Jake Muxworthy
Directors: David O. Russell
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Determined to solve the coincidence of seeing the same conspicuous stranger three times in a day, Albert hires a pair of existentialist detectives, who insist on spying on his everyday life while sharing their views on life and the nature of the universe.

Hook (1991)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Gwyneth Paltrow | Glenn Close | Dustin Hoffman | Robin Williams | Julia Roberts | Bob Hoskins | Maggie Smith | Caroline Goodall | Charlie Korsmo | Amber Scott | Laurel Cronin | Phil Collins | Arthur Malet | Isaiah Robinson | Jasen Fisher | Dante Basco | Raushan Hammond
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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Peter Pan (Williams) has grown up to be a cut-throat merger and acquisitions lawyer, and is married to Wendy’s granddaughter. Captain Hook (Hoffman) kidnaps his children, and Peter returns to Never Land with Tinkerbell (Roberts). With the help of her and the Lost Boys, he must remember how to be Peter Pan again in order to save his children by battling with Captain Hook once again.

Rain Man (1988)

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Dustin Hoffman | Tom Cruise | Valeria Golino | Gerald R. Molen | Jack Murdock | Michael D. Roberts | Ralph Seymour | Lucinda Jenney | Bonnie Hunt | Kim Robillard | Beth Grant | Dolan Dougherty | Marshall Dougherty | Patrick Dougherty | John-Michael Dougherty
Directors: Barry Levinson
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Charley is a hustler. He’s been on his own long enough to know how to work people and situations. He finds that the father who threw him out as a teen ager has died. He’s left him a now antique convertible and something more important, a previously unknown brother, Raymond. Raymond is Autistic, but is able to calculate complicated mathematical problems in his head with great speed and accuracy. Their father has left his fortune to Raymond who doesn’t even understand what money is for. Charley is enraged by what has happened and by his father keeping Raymond’s existence from him for his entire life. He kidnaps Raymond from his residential home but then finds that Raymond will only fly Qantas. The two begin a long road trip that will lead them to an understanding of each other.