Cast: Roy Scheider

Top movies, series, and documentaries starring Roy Scheider. Uncover the most acclaimed works, loved by fans and praised by critics.


All That Jazz

1979 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Bob Fosse

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

Plot Bob Fosse's semi-autobiographical film celebrates show business stripped of glitz or giddy illusions. Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider) is at the top of the heap, one of the most successful directors...

7.5

10K votes

7.5

10K votes

The French Connection

1971 · Movie · 104 min. · United States

Direction William Friedkin

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

Plot Two tough New York City cops, Jimmy Doyle (Gene Hackman) and Buddy Rosso (Roy Scheider), try to intercept a huge heroin shipment coming in from France.

Max

7.3

24K votes

7.3

24K votes

The Making of Steven Spielberg's 'Jaws'

1995 · Documentary · 125 min. · United States

Direction Laurent Bouzereau

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

Plot 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.

7.2

109 votes

7.2

109 votes

A Decade Under the Influence

2003 · Documentary · 138 min. · United States

Direction Ted Demme · Richard LaGravenese

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

Plot 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,...

7.2

504 votes

7.2

504 votes

Marathon Man

1976 · Movie · 125 min. · United States

Direction John Schlesinger

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

Plot 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...

7.1

10K votes

7.1

10K votes

Jaws

1975 · Movie · 124 min. · United States

Direction Steven Spielberg

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

Plot A giant great white shark arrives on the shores of a New England beach resort and wreaks havoc with bloody attacks on swimmers until a part-time sheriff teams up with...

7.1

119K votes

7.1

119K votes

Sorcerer

1977 · Movie · 121 min. · United States

Direction William Friedkin

Cast Roy Scheider · Bruno Cremer · Francisco Rabal · Amidou

Plot 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...

6.8

1K votes

6.8

1K votes

The Shark Is Still Working

2007 · Documentary · 100 min. · United States

Direction Erik Hollander

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

Plot 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.

6.7

38 votes

6.7

38 votes

The Assassination

1972 · Movie · 118 min. · France

Direction Yves Boisset

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

Plot 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...

6.5

139 votes

6.5

139 votes

The Rainmaker

1997 · Movie · 135 min. · United States

Direction Francis Ford Coppola

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

Plot An ageing couple whose son is dying rely on an unemployed lawyer, Rudy Baylor, to generate the funds needed for an operation which may just save his life. As time...

6.5

10K votes

6.5

10K votes

Puzzle of a Downfall Child

1970 · Movie · 105 min. · United States

Direction Jerry Schatzberg

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

Plot 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,...

6.5

68 votes

6.5

68 votes

Klute

1971 · Movie · 114 min. · United States

Direction Alan J. Pakula

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

Plot 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...

6.5

2K votes

6.5

2K votes

Naked Lunch

1991 · Movie · 115 min. · Canada

Direction David Cronenberg

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

Plot After developing an addiction to the substance he uses to kill bugs, an exterminator accidentally murders his wife and becomes involved in a secret government plot being orchestrated by giant...

Max

6.5

7K votes

6.5

7K votes

Jaws: The Inside Story (TV)

2010 · Documentary · 90 min. · United States

Direction Georgia Manukas

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

Plot 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...

6.4

166 votes

6.4

166 votes

RKO 281: The Battle Over Citizen Kane (TV)

1999 · Movie · 87 min. · United States

Direction Benjamin Ross

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

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

Max

6.2

3K votes

6.2

3K votes

The Seven-Ups

1973 · Movie · 103 min. · United States

Direction Philip D'Antoni

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

Plot 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...

6.2

156 votes

6.2

156 votes

Romeo is Bleeding

1993 · Movie · 97 min. · United States

Direction Peter Medak

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

Plot 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...

6.1

725 votes

6.1

725 votes

2010

1984 · Movie · 116 min. · United States

Direction Peter Hyams

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

Plot In this sequel to 2001: A Space Odyssey, a joint American- Soviet expedition is sent to Jupiter to discover what went wrong with the U.S.S. Discovery against a backdrop of...

6.0

5K votes

6.0

5K votes

The Russia House

1990 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Fred Schepisi

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

Plot "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...

5.9

4K votes

5.9

4K votes

The Outside Man

1972 · Movie · 110 min. · France

5.9

165 votes

5.9

165 votes