Cast: Philip Seymour Hoffman

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Tom Cruise · John C. Reilly · Philip Baker Hall · William H. Macy

Plot In a single day in Los Angeles, a number of interconnected lives are changed forever. A lonely police officer (John C. Reilly) falls in love with a disturbed cocaine addict...

Direction Joel Coen

Cast Jeff Bridges · John Goodman · Julianne Moore · Steve Buscemi

Plot When "The Dude" Lebowski is mistaken for a millionaire Lebowski, two thugs urinate on his rug to coerce him into paying a debt he knows nothing about. While attempting to...

Direction Spike Lee

Cast Edward Norton · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Barry Pepper · Rosario Dawson

Plot Edward Norton plays Monty Brogan, a harmless drug dealer who has 24 hours of freedom before serving a seven-year jail sentence. Nervous, confused, and terrified, Monty turns to his closest...

Direction Martin Brest

Cast Al Pacino · Chris O'Donnell · Gabrielle Anwar · James Rebhorn

Plot Hoping to earn extra money over the Thanksgiving weekend, Charlie Simms (Chris O'Donnell), a scholarship student at an exclusive prep school, agrees to look after blind, retired Lieutenant Colonel Frank...

Direction Todd Solondz

Cast Jane Adams · Lara Flynn Boyle · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Cynthia Stevenson

Plot When a young woman rejects her current overweight suitor in a restaurant, he unexpectedly places a curse on her. The film then moves on to her sisters. One is a...

Direction Richard Shepard

Cast John Cazale · Al Pacino · Meryl Streep · Francis Ford Coppola

Plot A portrait of the acting craft of John Cazale and a tour through the movies that defined a generation. Between 1972 and 1978, John Cazale appeared in "The Godfather," "The...

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Mark Wahlberg · Julianne Moore · Burt Reynolds · Don Cheadle

Plot Eddie Adams would have been just another high-school drop-out had he not met the likes of adult film director Rick Horner. Horner transforms Eddie into Dirk Diggler, a rising-star actor...

Direction Sidney Lumet

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Ethan Hawke · Albert Finney · Marisa Tomei

Plot A suspense thriller about a family facing the worst enemy of all – itself. Oscar-winner Philip Seymour Hoffman plays Andy, an overextended broker who lures his younger brother, Hank (Ethan...

Direction Yaron Zilberman

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Catherine Keener · Christopher Walken · Mark Ivanir

Plot Follows four members of a world-renowned string quartet who struggle to stay together in the face of death, competing egos and insuppressible lust.

Direction Charlie Kaufman

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Catherine Keener · Michelle Williams · Dianne Wiest

Plot Theater director Caden Cotard's life in Schenectady, New York is looking bleak. His wife Adele has left him to pursue her painting in Berlin, taking their young daughter Olive with...

Direction John Patrick Shanley

Cast Meryl Streep · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Amy Adams · Viola Davis

Plot Set in 1964, Doubt centers on a nun who confronts a priest after suspecting him abusing a black student. He denies the charges, and much of the play's quick-fire dialogue...

Direction Anthony Minghella

Cast Matt Damon · Gwyneth Paltrow · Jude Law · Cate Blanchett

Plot Set in Italy in the late 1950s, Tom Ripley (Matt Damon) craves the life led by Dickie Greenleaf (Jude Law). When Dickie's father, a wealthy ship builder, asks Tom to...

Direction Cameron Crowe

Cast Billy Crudup · Frances McDormand · Patrick Fugit · Kate Hudson

Plot When teenage writer William Miller finds an unexpected chance to go on tour with a famous rock band and report his experience back to a widely known teen magazine, he...

Direction Bennett Miller

Cast Brad Pitt · Jonah Hill · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Robin Wright

Plot The story of Oakland A's general manager Billy Beane successful attempt to put together a baseball club on a budget, by employing computer-generated analysis to draft his players.

Direction George Clooney

Cast Ryan Gosling · George Clooney · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Paul Giamatti

Plot The Ides of March takes place during the frantic last days before a heavily contested Ohio presidential primary, when an up-and-coming campaign press secretary (Ryan Gosling) finds himself involved in...

Direction Richard Curtis

Cast Tom Sturridge · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Bill Nighy · Nick Frost

Plot In 1966—British pop music's finest era—the BBC played just two hours of rock and roll every week. But pirate radio played rock and pop from the high seas 24 hours...

Direction Bennett Miller

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Catherine Keener · Clifton Collins Jr. · Mark Pellegrino

Plot Immensely gifted actor Philip Seymour Hoffman channels the spirit of Truman Capote in this deeply engaging portrait of a great American writer. Director Bennett Miller's film focuses on Capote's research...

Direction Mark Rance

Cast Paul Thomas Anderson · Fiona Apple · Philip Seymour Hoffman · Julianne Moore

Plot A very in-depth documentary that follows the very over-worked director Paul Thomas Anderson through a gruelling 80+ days of shooting for the film Magnolia (1999). Very funny behind the scenes...

Direction Paul Thomas Anderson

Cast Philip Baker Hall · John C. Reilly · Gwyneth Paltrow · Samuel L. Jackson

Plot John has lost all his money. He sits outside a diner in the desert when Sydney happens along, buys him coffee, then takes him to Reno and shows him how...

Direction Tamara Jenkins

Cast Philip Seymour Hoffman · Laura Linney · Philip Bosco · Peter Friedman

Plot A sister (Linney) and brother (Hoffman) face the realities of familial responsibility as they begin to care for their ailing father.