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A two-time Oscar winner who became a comedy headliner too. The highest-grossing Robert De Niro movies, ranked by worldwide box office.
Joker
De Niro plays a late-night talk-show host opposite Joaquin Phoenix's Arthur Fleck in Todd Phillips's dark character study, which became the first R-rated film to cross $1 billion worldwide.
Meet the Fockers
De Niro's ex-CIA father-in-law meets Ben Stiller's free-spirited parents (Dustin Hoffman and Barbra Streisand) in the 2004 comedy that earned about $523 million worldwide.
Shark Tale
De Niro voiced the great white mob boss Don Lino in DreamWorks' underwater gangster comedy, which grossed roughly $375 million worldwide.
Meet the Parents
De Niro's terrifying ex-spy patriarch Jack Byrnes put Ben Stiller's Greg Focker through the wringer in the 2000 comedy that earned about $330 million worldwide.
Little Fockers
The third film in the Focker saga reunited the clan and grossed roughly $311 million worldwide in 2010.
Silver Linings Playbook
De Niro earned an Oscar nomination as an OCD-prone Eagles fan in David O. Russell's romantic dramedy, which took in about $236 million worldwide.
The Intern
De Niro plays a widowed retiree who becomes a senior intern at Anne Hathaway's fashion startup in Nancy Meyers's 2015 comedy, which earned roughly $195 million worldwide.
Heat
De Niro and Al Pacino shared the screen for the first time in Michael Mann's epic crime saga, with its legendary downtown L.A. shootout. It grossed about $187 million worldwide.
Cape Fear
De Niro is the tattooed, vengeful ex-con Max Cady stalking a family in Martin Scorsese's lurid 1991 thriller, which earned roughly $182 million worldwide.
Analyze This
De Niro spoofed his own mob persona as a panic-attack-prone gangster in therapy with Billy Crystal, in the 1999 comedy that grossed about $177 million worldwide.
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