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.
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...
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.
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
Direction Jacques Deray
Cast Jean-Louis Trintignant · Ann-Margret · Roy Scheider · Angie Dickinson
5.9
165 votes
5.9
165 votes