Philip Seymour Hoffman films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 40 films on Boxlist

Known for Boogie Nights, Almost Famous and Moneyball.

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Starring Philip Seymour Hoffman

Boogie Nights
1997 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Set in 1977, back when sex was safe, pleasure was a business and business was booming, idealistic porn producer Jack Horner aspires to elevate his craft to an art form. Horner discovers Eddie Adams, a hot young talent working as a busboy...
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Almost Famous
2000 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
In 1973, 15-year-old William Miller's unabashed love of music and aspiration to become a rock journalist lands him an assignment from Rolling Stone magazine to interview and tour with the up-and-coming band, Stillwater.
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Moneyball
2011 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
The story of Oakland Athletics general manager Billy Beane's successful attempt to put together a baseball team on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.
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Magnolia
1999 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.
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The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
2013 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Katniss Everdeen has returned home safe after winning the 74th Annual Hunger Games along with fellow tribute Peeta Mellark. Winning means that they must turn around and leave their family and close friends, embarking on a "Victor's Tour"...
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The Master
2012 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Freddie, a volatile, heavy-drinking veteran who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder, finds some semblance of a family when he stumbles onto the ship of Lancaster Dodd, the charismatic leader of a new "religion" he forms after World...
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The Big Lebowski
1998 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Jeffrey 'The Dude' Lebowski, a Los Angeles slacker who only wants to bowl and drink White Russians, is mistaken for another Jeffrey Lebowski, a wheelchair-bound millionaire, and finds himself dragged into a strange series of events...
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
1999 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
Tom Ripley is a calculating young man who believes it's better to be a fake somebody than a real nobody. Opportunity knocks in the form of a wealthy U.S. shipbuilder who hires Tom to travel to Italy to bring back his playboy son, Dickie...
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Punch-Drunk Love
2002 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.
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Mary and Max
2009 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A tale of friendship between two unlikely pen pals: Mary, a lonely, eight-year-old girl living in the suburbs of Melbourne, and Max, a forty-four-year old, severely obese man living in New York. In the mid-1970s, a homely, friendless...
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25th Hour
2002 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
In New York City in the days following the events of 9/11, Monty Brogan is a convicted drug dealer about to start a seven-year prison sentence, and his final hours of freedom are devoted to hanging out with his closest buddies and trying...
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Before the Devil Knows You're Dead
2007 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
When two brothers organize the robbery of their parents' jewelry store, the job goes horribly wrong, triggering a series of events that send them and their family hurtling towards a shattering climax.
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Mission: Impossible - The Final Reckoning
2025 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
Ethan Hunt and team continue their search for the terrifying AI known as the Entity — which has infiltrated intelligence networks all over the globe — with the world's governments and a mysterious ghost from Hunt's past on their trail...
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Happiness
1998 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The lives of many individuals connected by the desire for happiness, often from sources usually considered dark or evil.
Capote
2005 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.
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A Most Wanted Man
2014 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A Chechen Muslim illegally immigrates to Hamburg and becomes a person of interest for a covert government team which tracks the movements of potential terrorists.
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Nobody's Fool
1994 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
Sully is a rascally ne'er-do-well approaching retirement age. While he is pressing a worker's compensation suit for a bad knee, he secretly works for his nemesis, Carl, and flirts with Carl's young wife Toby. Sully's long- forgotten son...
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The Savages
2007 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A sister and brother face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.
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Hard Eight
1996 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.
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Mission: Impossible III
2006 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Retired from active duty to train new IMF agents, Ethan Hunt is called back into action to confront sadistic arms dealer, Owen Davian. Hunt must try to protect his girlfriend while working with his new team to complete the mission.
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Doubt
2008 · Film
7.2/10 · TMDB
In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charges, and much of the film's quick-fire dialogue tackles themes of religion, morality, and...
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Scent of a Woman
1992 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer...
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Twister
1996 · Film
6.4/10 · TMDB
An unprecedented series of violent tornadoes is sweeping across Oklahoma. Tornado chasers, headed by Dr. Jo Harding, attempt to release a groundbreaking device that will allow them to track them and create a more advanced warning system...
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Charlie Wilson's War
2007 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
The true story of Texas congressman Charlie Wilson's covert dealings in Afghanistan, where his efforts to assist rebels in their war with the Soviets had some unforeseen and long-reaching effects.
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The Ides of March
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.
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Synecdoche, New York
2008 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A theater director struggles with his work, and the women in his life, as he attempts to create a life-size replica of New York inside a warehouse as part of his new play.
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State and Main
2000 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
A movie crew invades a small town whose residents are all too ready to give up their values for showbiz glitz.
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Cold Mountain
2003 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
In this classic story of love and devotion set against the backdrop of the American Civil War, a wounded Confederate soldier named W.P. Inman deserts his unit and travels across the South, aiming to return to his young wife, Ada, who he...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 1
2014 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Katniss Everdeen reluctantly becomes the symbol of a mass rebellion against the autocratic Capitol.
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A Late Quartet
2012 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When the beloved cellist of a world-renowned string quartet is diagnosed with a life threatening illness, the group's future suddenly hangs in the balance as suppressed emotions, competing egos and uncontrollable passions threaten to...
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The Hunger Games: Mockingjay - Part 2
2015 · Film
6.9/10 · TMDB
With the nation of Panem in a full scale war, Katniss confronts President Snow in the final showdown. Teamed with a group of her closest friends – including Gale, Finnick, and Peeta – Katniss goes off on a mission with the unit from...
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The Boat That Rocked
2009 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The Boat That Rocked is an ensemble comedy, where the romance is between the young people of the 60s, and pop music. It's about a band of DJs that captivate Britain, playing the music that defines a generation and standing up to a...
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When a Man Loves a Woman
1994 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
An airline pilot and his wife are forced to face the consequences of her alcoholism when her addictions threaten her life and their daughter's safety. While the woman enters detox, her husband must face the truth of his enabling behavior.
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The Invention of Lying
2009 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Set in a world where the concept of lying doesn't exist, a loser changes his lot when he invents lying and uses it to get ahead.
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Leap of Faith
1992 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Jonas Nightengale is a fraudulent Christian faith healer who makes a living travelling around America holding revival meetings and conducting 'miracles' with the help of his friend and manager, Jane, and their entourage.
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Flawless
1999 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
An ultraconservative police officer suffers a debilitating stroke and is assigned to a rehabilitative program that includes singing lessons - with the drag queen next door.
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God's Pocket
2014 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
A boozy lowlife tries to bury the truth about his crazy stepson's suspicious death, but a nosy newspaper columnist and the young man's mother complicate matters.
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Patch Adams
1998 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
The true story of Dr. Hunter "Patch" Adams, who in the 1970s found that humor is the best medicine, and was willing to do just anything to make his patients laugh—even if it meant risking his own career.
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The Getaway
1994 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Doc McCoy is put in prison because his partners chickened out and flew off without him after exchanging a prisoner with a lot of money. Doc knows Jack Benyon, a rich "business"-man, is up to something big, so he tells his wife (Carol...
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Along Came Polly
2004 · Film
6.0/10 · TMDB
Reuben Feffer is a guy who's spent his entire life playing it safe. Polly Prince is irresistible as a free-spirit who lives for the thrill of the moment. When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside...
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