The best Philip Seymour Hoffman’s drama movies on YouTube

Philip Seymour Hoffman

Philip Seymour Hoffman

23/07/1967- 02/02/2014
Today we present the best Philip Seymour Hoffman’s movies. If you are a great movie fan, you will surely know most of them, but we hope to discover a movie that you have not yet seen … and that you love! Let’s go there with the best Philip Seymour Hoffman’s movies.
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Twister

Twister
6.5/10
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. They are joined by Jo's soon to be ex-husband Bill, a former tornado chaser himself, and his girlfriend Melissa.

Magnolia

Magnolia
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 10/12/1999
  • Character: Phil Parma
An epic mosaic of many interrelated characters in search of happiness, forgiveness, and meaning in the San Fernando Valley.

Mary and Max

Mary and Max
8.1/10
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 Australian girl of 8 picks a name out of a Manhattan phone book and writes to him; she includes a chocolate bar. He writes back, with chocolate. Thus begins a 20-year correspondence. Will the two ever meet face to face?

Boogie Nights

Boogie Nights
7.9/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/10/1997
  • Character: Scotty J.
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 in a nightclub, and welcomes him into the extended family of movie-makers, misfits and hangers-on that are always around. Adams' rise from nobody to a celebrity adult entertainer is meteoric, and soon the whole world seems to know his porn alter ego, "Dirk Diggler". Now, when disco and drugs are in vogue, fashion is in flux and the party never seems to stop, Adams' dreams of turning sex into stardom are about to collide with cold, hard reality.

The Talented Mr. Ripley

The Talented Mr. Ripley
7.4/10
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. Ripley worms his way into the idyllic lives of Dickie and his girlfriend, plunging into a daring scheme of duplicity, lies and murder.

Almost Famous

Almost Famous
7.9/10
  • Genre: DramaMusic
  • Release: 15/09/2000
  • Character: Lester Bangs
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.

The Master

The Master
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 07/09/2012
  • Character: Lancaster Dodd
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 War II.

Moneyball

Moneyball
7.6/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 22/09/2011
  • Character: Art Howe
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.

Scent of a Woman

Scent of a Woman
8/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 23/12/1992
  • Character: George Willis, Jr.
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 Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.

The Ides of March

The Ides of March
7.1/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 24/09/2011
  • Character: Paul Zara
Dirty tricks stand to soil an ambitious young press spokesman's idealism in a cutthroat presidential campaign where 'victory' is relative.

Cold Mountain

Cold Mountain
7.2/10
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 left behind to tend their farm. As Inman makes his perilous journey home, Ada struggles to keep their home intact with the assistance of Ruby, a mysterious drifter sent to help her by a kindly neighbor.

Patch Adams

Patch Adams
6.8/10
  • Genre: ComedyDrama
  • Release: 25/12/1998
  • Character: Mitch Roman
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.

Punch-Drunk Love

Punch-Drunk Love
7.3/10
A socially awkward and volatile small business owner meets the love of his life after being threatened by a gang of scammers.

Hard Eight

Hard Eight
7.1/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 28/02/1997
  • Character: Young craps player
A stranger mentors a young Reno gambler who weds a hooker and befriends a vulgar casino regular.

25th Hour

25th Hour
7.6/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 19/12/2002
  • Character: Jacob Elinsky
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 to prepare his girlfriend for his extended absence.

Doubt

Doubt
7.5/10
  • Genre: Drama
  • Release: 27/02/2008
  • Character: Father Brendan Flynn
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 authority.

When a Man Loves a Woman

When a Man Loves a Woman
6.5/10
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.

Charlie Wilson's War

Charlie Wilson's War
7/10
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.

Capote

Capote
7.3/10
  • Genre: CrimeDrama
  • Release: 30/09/2005
  • Character: Truman Capote
A biopic of the writer, Truman Capote and his assignment for The New Yorker to write the non-fiction book, 'In Cold Blood'.

The Getaway

The Getaway
5.8/10
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 McCoy) to tell him that he's for sale if Benyon can get him out of prison. Benyon pulls some strings and Doc McCoy is released again. Unfortunately he has to cooperate with the same person that got him to prison.

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