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* The [[1978]] movie ''[[F.I.S.T.]]'', starring [[Sylvester Stallone]] as warehouse worker Johnny Kovak rising through the ranks of the fictional Teamster-like "Federation of Interstate Truckers", is loosely based on Hoffa's life.
* In the [[1980]] film ''[[Nine to Five]]'', a woman named Violet is talking of tying a concrete block to her boss's corpse and pitching him off the end of the pier. Her co-worker says, "You're crazy, Violet! They always find it!". Violet replies by saying "Crazy am I? They never found Jimmy Hoffa!".
* In the [[1986]] film ''[[Armed and Dangerous]]'', Frank Dooley ([[John Candy]]) and Norman Kane ([[Eugene Levy]]) go to work for a corrupt labor union. Upon realizing this, Dooley remarks of the union leaders to Kane, "I bet you any one these guys could tell you where Jimmy Hoffa's body is buried."
* In the [[1987]] film ''[[Predator (film)|Predator]]'', Major Alan "Dutch" Schaefer, played by [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]], leads a [[US Army Special Forces]] group into the [[Guatemala|Guatemalan]] jungle to find a government official and comes across the skinned bodies of other US soldiers. Snapping the [[dog tag (identifier)|dog tags]] off one of the corpses, Schaefer grimly reads off the name: Jimmy Hoffa.
* In the [[1990]] film ''[[Ghost (film)|Ghost]]'' there is a scene where Patrick Swayze makes a comment to one of the other characters: "They are gonna bury you right next to Jimmy Hoffa!"
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