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Bob Hoskins has 30 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 5 rank in the Top 10%, led by Brazil.
Recurring themes

The Contract
2006
Drama · Action

Kiss of Death
1995
Crime · Thriller

Matchstick Men
2003
Comedy · Drama

Two for the Money
2005
Comedy · Crime

The Score
2001
Action · Crime

The Good Thief
2003
Crime · Drama

My One and Only
2009
Comedy · Drama

Baby Boy
2001
Crime · Drama

Hook
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

The Long Good Friday
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 25%Max · Included

Mermaids
1990 · Movie · Actor
Top 33%MGM+ · Included

Mona Lisa
1986 · Movie · Actor
Top 40%Max · Included

Nixon
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 47%Prime Video · Included

Stay
2005 · Movie · Actor
Top 49%Pluto TV · Free w/ ads

Toon star Roger is worried that his wife Jessica is playing pattycake with someone else, so the studio hires detective Eddie Valiant to snoop on her. But the stakes are quickly raised when Marvin Acme is found dead and Roger is the prime suspect.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Bob Hoskins, Christopher Lloyd, Joanna Cassidy
Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

A troubled rock star descends into madness in the midst of his physical and social isolation from everyone.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Bob Geldof, Christine Hargreaves, James Laurenson

A Russian and a German sniper play a game of cat-and-mouse during the Battle of Stalingrad in WWII.
Dir. Jean-Jacques Annaud · With Jude Law, Joseph Fiennes, Rachel Weisz

An outcast half-wolf risks his life to prevent a deadly epidemic from ravaging Nome, Alaska.
Dir. Simon Wells · With Kevin Bacon, Bob Hoskins, Bridget Fonda

Raised as a slave, Danny is used to fighting for his survival. In fact, his "master," Bart, thinks of him as a pet and goes as far as leashing him with a collar so they can make money in fight clubs, where Danny is the main contender. When Bart's crew is in a car accident, Danny escapes and meets a blind, kindhearted piano tuner who takes him in and uses music to free the fighter's long-buried heart.
Dir. Louis Leterrier · With Jet Li, Morgan Freeman, Bob Hoskins

The boy who wasn't supposed to grow up—Peter Pan—does just that, becoming a soulless corporate lawyer whose workaholism could cost him his wife and kids. During his trip to see Granny Wendy in London, the vengeful Capt. Hook kidnaps Peter's kids and forces Peter to return to Neverland.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Dustin Hoffman, Robin Williams, Julia Roberts

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate property mogul, has big plans to get the American Mafia to bankroll his transformation of a derelict area of London into the possible venue for a future Olympic Games. However, a series of bombings targets his empire on the very weekend the Americans are in town. Shand is convinced there is a traitor in his organization, and sets out to eliminate the rat in typically ruthless fashion.
Dir. John Mackenzie · With Bob Hoskins, Helen Mirren, Dave King

Fifteen-year-old Charlotte Flax is tired of her wacky mom moving their family to a different town any time she feels it is necessary. When they move to a small Massachusetts town and Mrs. Flax begins dating a shopkeeper, Charlotte and her 9-year-old sister, Kate, hope that they can finally settle down. But when Charlotte's attraction to an older man gets in the way, the family must learn to accept each other for who they truly are.
Dir. Richard Benjamin · With Cher, Bob Hoskins, Winona Ryder

A dramatization of the 1968 strike at the Ford Dagenham car plant, where female workers walked out in protest against sexual discrimination.
Dir. Nigel Cole · With Sally Hawkins, Bob Hoskins, Miranda Richardson

Recently widowed well-to-do Laura Henderson purchases the Windmill Theatre in London as a post-widowhood hobby. After starting an innovative continuous variety review, which is copied by other theaters, they begin to lose money. Mrs Henderson suggests they add risqué burlesque acts similar to the Moulin Rouge in Paris.
Dir. Stephen Frears · With Judi Dench, Bob Hoskins, Will Young
George is a small-time crook just out of prison who discovers his tough-guy image is out of date. Reduced to working as a minder/driver for high class call girl Simone, he has to agree when she asks him to find a young colleague from her King's Cross days. That's when George's troubles just start.
Dir. Neil Jordan · With Bob Hoskins, Cathy Tyson, Robbie Coltrane

A look at President Richard M. Nixon—a man carrying the fate of the world on his shoulders while battling the self-destructive demands from within—spanning his troubled boyhood in California to the shocking Watergate scandal that would end his Presidency.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Anthony Hopkins, Joan Allen, Powers Boothe

Psychiatrist Sam Foster has a new patient, Henry Letham, who claims to be suicidal. In trying to diagnose him, Sam visits Henry's prior therapist and also finds Henry's mother -- even though Henry has said that he murdered both of his parents. As reality starts to contradict fact, Sam spirals into an unstable mental state. Then he finds a clue as to how and when Henry may try to kill himself, and races to try to stop him.
Dir. Marc Forster · With Ewan McGregor, Naomi Watts, Ryan Gosling

In the 1930s, British officer John Truscott journeys to a remote village in colonial Malaysia to educate and Westernize the local Iban population. There, he's introduced to the lovely Selima. In keeping with tradition, Selima is assigned to sleep with Truscott and teach him the native language and customs. But when they fall in love, both colonists and natives object to their plans to marry.
Dir. Guy Jenkin · With Jessica Alba, Brenda Blethyn, Hugh Dancy

Harlem's legendary Cotton Club becomes a hotbed of passion and violence as the lives and loves of entertainers and gangsters collide.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Richard Gere, Gregory Hines, Diane Lane
The enchanted story of Pinocchio.
Dir. Alberto Sironi · With Bob Hoskins, Robbie Kay, Luciana Littizzetto

Seventeen and pregnant, Felicia travels to England in search of her lover and is found instead by Joseph Ambrose Hilditch, a helpful catering manager whose kindness masks an unsettling secret.
Dir. Atom Egoyan · With Bob Hoskins, Elaine Cassidy, Arsinée Khanjian

Dan Merrick comes out from a shattering car accident with amnesia. He finds that he is married to Judith who is trying to help him start his life again. He keeps getting flashbacks about events and places that he can't remember. He meets pet shop owner and part time private detective Gus Klein who has supposedly done some work for him prior to the accident. Klein helps Merrick to find out more...
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Tom Berenger, Bob Hoskins, Greta Scacchi

Miser Ebenezer Scrooge is awakened on Christmas Eve by spirits who reveal to him his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways. Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold: death or redemption.
Dir. Robert Zemeckis · With Jim Carrey, Gary Oldman, Colin Firth

The lethal Reaper virus spreads throughout Britain—infecting millions and killing hundreds of thousands. Authorities brutally and successfully quarantine the country but, three decades later, the virus resurfaces in a major city. An elite group of specialists is urgently dispatched into the still-quarantined country to retrieve a cure by any means necessary. Shut off from the rest of the world, the unit must battle through a landscape that has become a waking nightmare.
Dir. Neil Marshall · With Rhona Mitra, Bob Hoskins, Adrian Lester

Based on the life and career of legendary entertainer, Bobby Darin, the biopic moves back and forth between his childhood and adulthood, to tell the tale of his life.
Dir. Kevin Spacey · With Kevin Spacey, Kate Bosworth, John Goodman
Racist police officer Jack Moony has a vendetta against Napoleon Stone, a charismatic black lawyer who is sleeping with Jack's old flame Crystal Gerrity. Jack has a heart attack, but his life is saved when he receives Stone's heart, since Stone died mysteriously the same night as Jack was stricken. Stone is not completely gone, however, and as a ghost he is all too happy to give Jack advice on how he should do his job and live his life.
Dir. James D. Parriott · With Bob Hoskins, Denzel Washington, Chloe Webb

When Hollywood superstar George Reeves dies in his home, private detective Louis Simo is hired to investigate his death and gets caught in a web of lies involving a big studio executive's wife. Based on a true story.
Dir. Allen Coulter · With Adrien Brody, Diane Lane, Ben Affleck

Martin, an I.R.A. hitman, is seen by a Catholic priest while carrying out a hit. He grows a bond with the priest and his niece. But his past and his former employers put all their lives in danger.
Dir. Mike Hodges · With Mickey Rourke, Bob Hoskins, Alan Bates
Tabloid reporters are sent by their editor to investigate after the paper recieves a letter from a woman claiming an angel is living with her.
Dir. Nora Ephron · With John Travolta, Andie MacDowell, William Hurt

A group of people who feel betrayed by their government and let down by their police force form a modern-day outlaw posse in order to right what they see as the wrongs of society.
Dir. Nick Love · With Sean Bean, Danny Dyer, Rupert Friend

In early 19th century England, orphaned Becky Sharp defies her poverty-stricken background and ascends the social ladder alongside her best friend.
Dir. Mira Nair · With Reese Witherspoon, Eileen Atkins, Jim Broadbent
Mario and Luigi, plumbers from Brooklyn, find themselves in an alternate universe where evolved dinosaurs live in hi-tech squalor. They're the only hope to save our universe from invasion by the dino dictator, Koopa.
Dir. Annabel Jankel, Rocky Morton · With Bob Hoskins, John Leguizamo, Dennis Hopper

Raised on the streets of turn-of-the century London, orphaned Peter and his pals survive by their fearless wits as cunning young pickpockets. Now, they've been rounded up by their mentor Jimmy Hook to snatch a priceless—some believe, magical—treasure which transports them to Neverland.
With Charlie Rowe, Anna Friel, Cas Anvar
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