Movies starring Bette Midler

First Movie - Hawaii 1966
Last Movie - Hocus Pocus 2 2022
Total Movies - 39
Highest Grossing Movies
- UK: What Women Want (2001) - £17,091,251
- US: What Women Want (2001) - $182,811,707
- World: What Women Want (2001) - $374,111,707
Combined grosses
- UK - £85.9 Million
- US - $1.1 Billion
- Global - $805.6 Million
Highest Rated Movie - Ruthless People (1986) - 100%
Lowest rated movie - Stella (1990) - 40%

Acting credits By Year of release

By Year

By UK Gross

Year

Hocus Pocus 2

(Bette Midler plays Winifred Sanderson)

Director(s):

Anne Fletcher

Starring:

Bette Midler • Kathy Najimy • Sarah Jessica Parker • Doug Jones • Whitney Peak

2022

The Addams Family 2

(Bette Midler plays Grandma)

Director(s):

Greg Tiernan • Conrad Vernon • Laura Brousseau • Kevin Pavlovic

Starring:

Oscar Isaac • Charlize Theron • Chloë Grace Moretz • Javon Walton • Nick Kroll

2021

Coastal Elites

(Bette Midler plays Miriam Nessler)

Director(s):

Jay Roach

Starring:

Bette Midler • Kaitlyn Dever • Dan Levy • Sarah Paulson • Issa Rae

2020

The Glorias

(Bette Midler plays Bella Abzug)

Director(s):

Julie Taymor

Starring:

Julianne Moore • Alicia Vikander • Timothy Hutton • Lorraine Toussaint • Janelle Monae

2020

The Addams Family

(Bette Midler plays Grandma)

Director(s):

Greg Tiernan • Conrad Vernon

Starring:

Oscar Isaac • Charlize Theron • Chloë Grace Moretz • Finn Wolfhard • Nick Kroll

2019

Freak Show

Director(s):

Trudie Styler

Starring:

AnnaSophia Robb • Abigail Breslin • Alex Lawther • Laverne Cox • Bette Midler

2018

20 Feet From Stardom

Director(s):

Morgan Neville

Starring:

Lou Adler • Stephanie Alexander • Patti Austin • Chris Botti • David Bowie

2014

Jinxed!

(Bette Midler plays Bonita Friml)

Director(s):

Stephen Herek • Don Siegel

Starring:

Bette Midler • Ciara Bravo • Ken Wahl • Jacob Bertrand • Rip Torn

2013

Parental Guidance

Director(s):

Andy Fickman

Starring:

Billy Crystal • Bette Midler • Marisa Tomei • Tom Everett Scott • Bailee Madison

2012

Cats & Dogs: The Revenge of Kitty Galore

(Bette Midler plays Kitty Galore)

Director(s):

Brad Peyton

Starring:

James Marsden • Nick Nolte • Christina Applegate • Katt Williams • Bette Midler

2010

Then She Found Me

Director(s):

Helen Hunt

Starring:

Helen Hunt • Colin Firth • Bette Midler • Matthew Broderick • Lynn Cohen

2008

The Women

Director(s):

Diane English

Starring:

Meg Ryan • Annette Bening • Eva Mendes • Debra Messing • Jada Pinkett Smith

2008

The Stepford Wives

Director(s):

Frank Oz

Starring:

Nicole Kidman • Matthew Broderick • Bette Midler • Glenn Close • Christopher Walken

2004

What Women Want

Director(s):

Nancy Meyers

Starring:

Mel Gibson • Helen Hunt • Marisa Tomei • Alan Alda • Ashley Johnson

2001

Drowning Mona

Director(s):

Nick Gomez

Starring:

Danny DeVito • Bette Midler • Neve Campbell • Jamie Lee Curtis • Casey Affleck

2000

Isn't She Great

Director(s):

Andrew Bergman

Starring:

Bette Midler • Nathan Lane • Stockard Channing • David Hyde Pierce • John Cleese

2000

Fantasia 2000

Director(s):

James Algar • Gatan Brizzi • Paul Brizzi • Hendel Butoy • Francis Glebas • Eric Goldberg • Don Hahn • Pixote Hunt

Starring:

Leopold Stokowski • Ralph Grierson • Kathleen Battle • Steve Martin • Itzhak Perlman

1999

Jackie's Back!

(Bette Midler plays Bette Midler)

Director(s):

Robert Townsend

Starring:

Jenifer Lewis • Tim Curry • T.V. Blake • Tangie Ambrose • Whoopi Goldberg

1999

That Old Feeling

(Bette Midler plays Lilly Leonard)

Director(s):

Carl Reiner

Starring:

Bette Midler • Dennis Farina • Paula Marshall • Gail OGrady • David Rasche

1997

The First Wives Club

Director(s):

Hugh Wilson

Starring:

Goldie Hawn • Bette Midler • Diane Keaton • Maggie Smith • Sarah Jessica Parker

1996

Get Shorty

(Bette Midler plays Doris Saphron)

Director(s):

Barry Sonnenfeld

Starring:

John Travolta • Gene Hackman • Rene Russo • Danny DeVito • Dennis Farina

1995

Gypsy

(Bette Midler plays Mama Rose)

Director(s):

Emile Ardolino

Starring:

Bette Midler • Peter Riegert • Cynthia Gibb • Edward Asner • Christine Ebersole

1993

Hocus Pocus

(Bette Midler plays Winifred)

Director(s):

Kenny Ortega

Starring:

Bette Midler • Sarah Jessica Parker • Kathy Najimy • Omri Katz • Thora Birch

1993

For the Boys

Director(s):

Mark Rydell

Starring:

Bette Midler • James Caan • George Segal • Patrick O'Neal • Christopher Rydell

1992

Scenes From a Mall

Director(s):

Paul Mazursky

Starring:

Bette Midler • Woody Allen • Bill Irwin • Daren Firestone • Rebecca Nickels

1991

Stella

(Bette Midler plays Stella Claire)

Director(s):

John Erman

Starring:

Bette Midler • John Goodman • Trini Alvarado • Stephen Collins • Marsha Mason

1990

Oliver and Company

Director(s):

George Scribner

Starring:

Joey Lawrence • Billy Joel • Cheech Marin • Richard Mulligan • Roscoe Lee Browne

1989

Beaches

Director(s):

Garry Marshall

Starring:

Bette Midler • Barbara Hershey • John Heard • Spalding Gray • Lainie Kazan

1989

Big Business

(Bette Midler plays Sadie Shelton / Sadie Ratliff)

Director(s):

Jim Abrahams

Starring:

Bette Midler • Lily Tomlin • Fred Ward • Edward Herrmann • Michele Placido

1988

Outrageous Fortune

Director(s):

Arthur Hiller

Starring:

Shelley Long • Bette Midler • Peter Coyote • Robert Prosky • John Schuck

1987

Ruthless People

Director(s):

Jim Abrahams • David Zucker • Jerry Zucker

Starring:

Danny DeVito • Bette Midler • Judge Reinhold • Helen Slater • Anita Morris

1986

Down and Out In Beverly Hills

Director(s):

Paul Mazursky

Starring:

Nick Nolte • Bette Midler • Richard Dreyfuss • Little Richard • Tracy Nelson

1986

The Rose

Director(s):

Mark Rydell

Starring:

Bette Midler • Alan Bates • Frederic Forrest • Harry Dean Stanton • Barry Primus

1979

The Thorn

(Bette Midler plays Virgin Mary)

Director(s):

Peter McWilliams

Starring:

John Bassberger • Bette Midler • John Greenberg • James Harrison • Fred LaBour

1974

Scarecrow In a Garden of Cucumbers

(Bette Midler plays Lullabye Singer)

Director(s):

Robert J. Kaplan

Starring:

Holly Woodlawn • Tally Brown • Suzanne Skillen • Yafa Lerner • David Margulies

1972

Goodbye, Columbus

(Bette Midler plays Wedding Guest)

Director(s):

Larry Peerce

Starring:

Richard Benjamin • Ali MacGraw • Jack Klugman • Nan Martin • Michael Meyers

1969

The Detective

(Bette Midler plays Girl at Party)

Director(s):

Gordon Douglas

Starring:

Frank Sinatra • Lee Remick • Ralph Meeker • Jack Klugman • Horace McMahon

1968

Hawaii

(Bette Midler plays Passenger)

Director(s):

George Roy Hill

Starring:

Julie Andrews • Max von Sydow • Richard Harris • Gene Hackman • Carroll O'Connor

1966