Cast: Roy Scheider

Direction Bob Fosse

Cast Roy Scheider · Jessica Lange · Leland Palmer · Ann Reinking

Synopsis All That Jazz (1979) follows Joe Gideon, a brilliant but self-destructive Broadway director and choreographer, as he balances his chaotic professional and personal life. While pushing himself to finish a major stage production and edit a film, his relentless work...

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Gene Hackman · Roy Scheider · Fernando Rey · Tony Lo Bianco

Synopsis The French Connection (1971) follows two New York City detectives, Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle and Buddy "Cloudy" Russo, as they uncover a massive heroin smuggling operation. After surveilling a suspicious Frenchman, Alain Charnier, they discover a connection to a wealthy drug...

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

Cast Steven Spielberg · Joe Alves · Susan Backlinie · Peter Benchley

Synopsis Excellent and very detailed documentary on the making of a classic. Filled with appealing trivia, exhaustive interviews with cast and crew members, and never before seen footage.

Direction Ted Demme · Richard LaGravenese

Cast Martin Scorsese · Francis Ford Coppola · Robert Altman · Peter Bogdanovich

Synopsis The 1970s was an extraordinary time of rebellion, of questioning every accepted idea: political activism, hedonism, protests, the sexual revolution, the women's movement, the civil rights movement, the music revolution, rage and liberation. Every standard by which we set our...

Direction John Schlesinger

Cast Dustin Hoffman · Laurence Olivier · Roy Scheider · William Devane

Synopsis As a Columbia University graduate student, Babe Levy (Dustin Hoffman), spends his spare time running in marathons. However, he winds up running for his life when he inadvertently becomes entangled in an espionage plot. Babe's brother Doc (Roy Scheider) is...

Direction Steven Spielberg

Cast Roy Scheider · Robert Shaw · Richard Dreyfuss · Lorraine Gary

Synopsis In Jaws (1975), a small coastal town is terrorized by a massive great white shark attacking swimmers during the busy summer season. The local police chief, a marine biologist, and a seasoned shark hunter team up to hunt the predator....

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Roy Scheider · Bruno Cremer · Francisco Rabal · Amidou

Synopsis A group of outcasts from different backgrounds and nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in an oil-drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, four of the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money...

Direction Erik Hollander

Cast Steve Alten · Joe Alves · Roy Arbogast · Steven Awalt

Synopsis After three decades, Jaws continues to intrigue, thrill and frighten viewers. This documentary focuses on the many ways Jaws has helped to shape common elements of pop culture.

Direction Yves Boisset

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Michel Piccoli · Jean Seberg · Gian Maria Volonté

Synopsis Sadiel, rebel leader in a North African state, takes refuge in Switzerland in the aftermath of a coup. Aware of the threat posed by Sadiel, the ruthless Colonel Kassar contacts the French security services to help in capturing the political...

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

Cast Matt Damon · Danny DeVito · Claire Danes · Jon Voight

Synopsis In The Rainmaker (1997), a young and idealistic law graduate, Rudy Baylor, takes on his first case against a powerful insurance company accused of denying a leukemia patient's claim. With no experience and limited resources, Rudy teams up with a...

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

Cast Faye Dunaway · Barry Primus · Viveca Lindfors · Barry Morse

Synopsis Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York, her stressfull workdays, her affair with Mark, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her...

Direction Alan J. Pakula

Cast Jane Fonda · Donald Sutherland · Roy Scheider · Charles Cioffi

Synopsis A small-town private eye (Donald Sutherland) searching for a missing husband in New York befriends a high-end call girl (Jane Fonda) who's threatened by a sadistic killer in this character-driven suspense thriller.

Direction David Cronenberg

Cast Peter Weller · Judy Davis · Ian Holm · Julian Sands

Synopsis In Naked Lunch (1991), a troubled exterminator becomes entangled in a surreal, drug-fueled nightmare after discovering his wife's addiction. As he descends into a hallucinatory world, he encounters bizarre creatures, sinister conspirators, and a mysterious substance that blurs reality and...

Direction Georgia Manukas

Cast Richard Dreyfuss · Steven Spielberg · Sid Sheinberg · Alison Bailes

Synopsis Steven Spielberg takes us behind the cameras for the making of a classic movie. Jaws stunned the world when it hit the screens in 1975, breaking all existing box office records and grossing $470 million dollars worldwide. Terror gripped the...

Direction Benjamin Ross

Cast Liev Schreiber · James Cromwell · Melanie Griffith · Brenda Blethyn

Synopsis Orson Welles produces his greatest film, Citizen Kane, despite the opposition of the film's de facto subject, William Randolph Hearst.

Direction Philip D'Antoni

Cast Roy Scheider · Victor Arnold · Jerry León · Ken Kercheval

Synopsis The seven-ups are a secret, elite New York detective squad who are very effective in catching criminals, even if their tactics are questionable. However, what one of the detectives doesn't know is that one of his informants is mastermind of...

Direction Peter Medak

Cast Gary Oldman · Lena Olin · Roy Scheider · Annabella Sciorra

Synopsis A corrupt New York police officer's double life as a witness protection guard, and as a mafia informant, begins to catch up with him when he's bribed to kill a deadly female Russian assassin in custody while keeping his lifestyle...

Direction Peter Hyams

Cast Roy Scheider · Helen Mirren · John Lithgow · Bob Balaban

Synopsis In 2010 (1984), a joint American-Soviet mission is sent to Jupiter to uncover the fate of the vanished Discovery spacecraft and its AI, HAL 9000. Led by Dr. Heywood Floyd, the crew investigates the mysterious monolith orbiting Jupiter, while tensions...

Direction Fred Schepisi

Cast Michelle Pfeiffer · Sean Connery · James Fox · John Mahoney

Synopsis "Barley" Scott Blair (Sean Connery) is an alcoholic book editor from a bargain-basement publishing house in Great Britain who'd rather be drinking in Lisbon than attending a book dealers' show in Russia. So he's surprised when a CIA agent (Mac...

Direction Jacques Deray

Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Ann-Margret · Roy Scheider · Angie Dickinson