Direction: Roger Spottiswoode

The best movies, series, and documentaries directed by Roger Spottiswoode. Explore exceptional titles that showcase a unique filmmaking vision.


Shake Hands with the Devil

2007 · Movie · 113 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Roy Dupuis · Deborah Kara Unger · James Gallanders · Mark Antony Krupa

Synopsis Shake Hands with the Devil is the story of a Canadian commander torn between his duty and his conscience when he finds himself eyewitness to hell on earth. In 1993, the United Nations dispatches Lieutenant-General Roméo Dallaire (Roy Dupuis) to...

7.1

78 votes

7.1

78 votes

Under Fire

1983 · Movie · 128 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Nick Nolte · Joanna Cassidy · Gene Hackman · Jean-Louis Trintignant

Synopsis Russell Price (Nick Nolte) is a photojournalist caught up in the political crossfire in war-torn Nicaragua. Under pressure from radio reporter Claire (Joanna Cassidy), Price becomes involved with the Sandanista revolutionaries. Gene Hackman stars as other colleague who is in...

6.7

2K votes

6.7

2K votes

A Street Cat Named Bob

2016 · Movie · 103 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Luke Treadaway · Ruta Gedmintas · Joanne Froggatt · Anthony Head

Synopsis When street musician James Bowen found an injured cat curled up in the hallway of his apartment building, he had no idea how much his life was about to change. James was living hand to mouth on the streets of...

6.6

2K votes

6.6

2K votes

Ripley's Believe It or Not! (TV Series)

1982 · Documentary · 60 min. · United States

Direction Ronald Lyon · William Kronick · John Peyser · Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Jack Palance · Holly Palance · Marie Osmond · Cathie Shirriff

Synopsis Based on the travels and discoveries of oddity-hunter Ripley, this show looked at the people, places and events that made up the stranger side of human history. Subjects have included Nikola Tesla, The Bermuda Triangle, The Elephant Man, and Mad...

6.5

47 votes

6.5

47 votes

And the Band Played On (TV)

1993 · Movie · 140 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Matthew Modine · Alan Alda · Richard Gere · Phil Collins

Synopsis This is the story of the first years of the AIDS epidemic in the United States and focuses on three key elements. Dr. Don Francis, an immunologist with experience in eradicating smallpox and containing the Ebola virus, joins the Centers...

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6.5

1K votes

6.5

1K votes

The Children of Huang Shi

2008 · Movie · 114 min. · China

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Jonathan Rhys Meyers · Radha Mitchell · Chow Yun-Fat · Michelle Yeoh

Synopsis Inspired by true events, THE CHILDREN OF HUANG SHI is a portrayal both sweeping and intimate of people who, thrown into an unexpected and desperate situation, discover their capacity for love and responsibility. It tells how a young Englishman, George...

6.4

5K votes

6.4

5K votes

The Matthew Shepard Story (TV)

2002 · Movie · 88 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Stockard Channing · Sam Waterston · Shane Meier · Wendy Crewson

Synopsis In 1998, a young gay man by the name of Matthew Shepard was robbed, viciously beaten and left tied to a fence to die. Although he was soon found by the police and hospitalized, he soon expired. This film recounts...

5.9

23 votes

5.9

23 votes

Deadly Pursuit

1988 · Movie · 110 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Sidney Poitier · Tom Berenger · Kirstie Alley · Clancy Brown

Synopsis A city cop (Sidney Poitier) and a mountain guide (Tom Berenger) reluctantly join forces to capture a killer who is part of a hunting party traversing the Pacific Northwest and which is being led by the guide's unsuspecting girlfriend (Kirstie...

5.9

2K votes

5.9

2K votes

Tomorrow Never Dies

1997 · Movie · 119 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Pierce Brosnan · Michelle Yeoh · Jonathan Pryce · Teri Hatcher

Synopsis Agent James Bond 007 is on a mission which includes a media tycoon, his former lover and a Chinese agent. Elliot Carver wants to complete his global media empire, but in order for this to work., he must achieve broadcasting...

5.5

17K votes

5.5

17K votes

Mesmer

1994 · Movie · 107 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Alan Rickman · Amanda Ooms · Simon McBurney · Donal Donnelly

Synopsis The 18th-century Viennese medical establishment is threatened by the radical yet successful healing methods of Austrian physician Franz Anton Mesmer. Blind pianist Maria Theresa Paradies, daughter of a well-to-do businessman, becomes Mesmer's patient after he calms her seizure at a...

5.4

37 votes

5.4

37 votes

Ripley Under Ground

2005 · Movie · 97 min. · United Kingdom

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Barry Pepper · Alan Cumming · Jacinda Barrett · Claire Forlani

Synopsis After his friend, a hot young artist, is killed, a resourceful American man living in London covers up the crime and tries to keep the friend's name alive in order to exploit his legacy and reap millions in the process.

5.2

72 votes

5.2

72 votes

The Best of Times

1986 · Movie · 100 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Robin Williams · Kurt Russell · Pamela Reed · Holly Palance

Synopsis A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.

5.2

150 votes

5.2

150 votes

Terror Train

1980 · Movie · 90 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Ben Johnson · Jamie Lee Curtis · Hart Bochner · David Copperfield

Synopsis A college fraternaty prank goes bad and student ends up in the mental ward. Four years later, it's graduation time, and the members of the fraternity decide to have a costume party aboard a train trip to celebrate thier graduation....

5.0

1K votes

5.0

1K votes

Midnight Sun

2014 · Movie · 120 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Dakota Goyo · Goran Visnjic · Bridget Moynahan · Racine Bebamikawe

Synopsis Midnight Sun is an adventure story set amongst the ice fields of Northern Canada. The hero is a young boy, Luke, who defies the dangerous elements of nature to reunite an abandoned polar bear cub with his mother. On this...

5.0

286 votes

5.0

286 votes

4.9

83 votes

Turner & Hooch

1989 · Movie · 99 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Tom Hanks · Mare Winningham · Reginald Veljohnson · Craig T. Nelson

Synopsis Scott Turner has 3 days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some "real" cases, not just misdemeanors. Then Amos Reed is murdered, and Scott Turner sets himself on the case. The...

4.8

13K votes

4.8

13K votes

The 6th Day

2000 · Movie · 123 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Arnold Schwarzenegger · Robert Duvall · Michael Rapaport · Wendy Crewson

Synopsis In "The 6th Day", a futuristic action thriller that treats the topic of genetic cloning, Arnold Schwarzenegger stars as Adam Gibson, a helicopter pilot who returns home from a trip to his wife and family to find his double--a human...

4.8

16K votes

4.8

16K votes

4.6

4K votes

Ice Bound (TV)

2003 · Movie · 85 min. · Canada

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Susan Sarandon · Aidan Devine · Cynthia Mace · Paulino Nunes

Synopsis Academy Award-winner Susan Sarandon stars in this harrowing true story of Dr. Jerri Nielsen, the cancer-stricken physician stranded at a South Pole research station who under dangerous circumstances, and with the help of co-workers, treated her own illness. Based on...

4.4

294 votes

4.4

294 votes

The Beach House (TV)

2018 · Movie · 90 min. · United States

Direction Roger Spottiswoode

Cast Minka Kelly · Andie MacDowell · Chad Michael Murray · Makenzie Vega

Synopsis When Cara finds her life spinning out of control, she returns to the scenic Lowcountry to visit her mother. Before long, the rhythms of the island open her heart in wonderful ways as she repairs the family beach house, becomes...

4.0

96 votes

4.0

96 votes