Richard Dreyfuss films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 33 films on Boxlist

Known for Jaws, American Graffiti and Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story.

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Starring Richard Dreyfuss

Jaws
1975 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
When an insatiable great white shark terrorizes the townspeople of Amity Island, the police chief, an oceanographer and a grizzled shark hunter seek to destroy the blood-thirsty beast.
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American Graffiti
1973 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
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Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story
2025 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
The authorized documentary celebrating the film that redefined Hollywood, 50 years after its premiere. Featuring rare archival footage and interviews with acclaimed Hollywood directors alongside Steven Spielberg, top shark scientists, and...
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Close Encounters of the Third Kind
1977 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
After an encounter with UFOs, a line worker feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
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Stand by Me
1986 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
Gordie, Chris, Teddy and Vern are four friends who decide to hike to find the corpse of Ray Brower, a local teenager, who was hit by a train while plucking blueberries in the wild.
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The Graduate
1967 · Film
7.7/10 · TMDB
Benjamin, a recent college graduate very worried about his future, finds himself in a love triangle with an older woman and her daughter.
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Spielberg
2017 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
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What About Bob?
1991 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
Before going on vacation, self-involved psychiatrist Dr. Leo Marvin has the misfortune of taking on a new patient: Bob Wiley. An exemplar of neediness and a compendium of phobias, Bob follows Marvin to his family's country house. Dr...
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James and the Giant Peach
1996 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
When the young orphan boy James spills a magic bag of crocodile tongues, he finds himself in possession of a giant peach that flies him away to strange lands.
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The American President
1995 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Widowed U.S. president Andrew Shepherd, one of the world's most powerful men, can have anything he wants -- and what he covets most is Sydney Ellen Wade, a Washington lobbyist. But Shepherd's attempts at courting her spark wild rumors and...
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Milius
2013 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
The life story of ‘Zen Anarchist’ filmmaker John Milius, one of the most influential storytellers of his generation.
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RED
2010 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
When his peaceful life is threatened by a high-tech assassin, former black-ops agent, Frank Moses reassembles his old team in a last ditch effort to survive and uncover his assailants.
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Postcards From the Edge
1990 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
Substance-addicted Hollywood actress, Suzanne Vale is on the skids. After a spell at a detox centre her film company insists as a condition of continuing to employ her that she live with her mother, herself once a star and now a champion...
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Audrey
2020 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
An intimate look at Audrey Hepburn's life, with access to exclusive never-before-seen footage from her family's personal collection, providing an unprecedented and insightful view on Audrey, her life and her dreams, aspirations and her...
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Stakeout
1987 · Film
6.5/10 · TMDB
Two cops are given the 'dirty' job of staking out the home of an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend. Chris and the beautiful girlfriend accidentally meet and fall in love. Just as Chris confesses, the convict appears, but will she betray him ?
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Mr. Holland's Opus
1995 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
In 1965, passionate musician Glenn Holland takes a day job as a high school music teacher, convinced it's just a small obstacle on the road to his true calling: writing a historic opus. As the decades roll by with the composition unwritten...
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Down and Out in Beverly Hills
1986 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Beverly Hills couple Barbara and Dave Whiteman find their lives altered by the arrival of a vagrant who tries to drown himself in their swimming pool.
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Always
1989 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Pete Sandich is a reckless fire-fighting pilot who is killed in what was to have been his final mission. Ascending to Heaven, Pete is introduced to business-like angel who instructs the spectral Pete to pass on his aviation knowledge to...
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Piranha 3D
2010 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Each year the population of sleepy Lake Victoria, Arizona explodes from 5,000 to 50,000 residents for the annual Spring Break celebration. But then, an earthquake opens an underwater chasm, releasing an enormous swarm of ancient Piranha...
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W.
2008 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
The story of the eventful life of George W. Bush—his struggles and triumphs, how he found both his wife and his faith—and the critical days leading up to his decision to invade Iraq.
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Book Club
2018 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
Four lifelong friends decide that their lives could change by becoming nasty and reading Fifty Shades of Grey in their monthly book club to get inspiration on how to handle sexual pleasure at an elderly age.
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Poseidon
2006 · Film
5.8/10 · TMDB
A packed cruise ship traveling the Atlantic is hit and overturned by a massive wave, compelling the passengers to begin a dramatic fight for their lives.
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The Last Laugh
2019 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
After moving to a retirement home, restless talent manager Al reconnects with long-ago client Buddy and coaxes him back out on the comedy circuit.
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Into the Deep
2025 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Divers searching for sunken treasure witness the murder of drug dealers by modern-day pirates, but a killer great white is determined not to let any of them escape its waters.
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Another Stakeout
1993 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Chris and Bill are called upon for their excellent surveillance record to stakeout a lakeside home where a Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading or already hiding.
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Every Last One of Them
2021 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
Desperate to find his missing daughter, a man tracks her last known whereabouts to a small desert town only to discover that the head of a deeply funded security firm and his vicious younger sister are protecting a family secret that could...
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Murder at Yellowstone City
2022 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
A former slave who arrives in Yellowstone City, Montana, a desolate former boomtown now on the decline, looking for a place to call home. On that same day, a local prospector discovers gold - and is murdered.
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Zipper
2015 · Film
5.5/10 · TMDB
Sam Ellis is a man on the rise — a hot-shot federal prosecutor on the cusp of a bright political future. But what was meant to be a one-time experience with an escort turns into a growing addiction — a new demon threatening to destroy his...
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Polar
2019 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When a retiring assassin realizes that he is the target of a hit, he winds up back in the game going head to head with a gang of younger, ruthless killers.
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Very Good Girls
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Two New York City girls make a pact to lose their virginity during their first summer out of high school. When they both fall for the same street artist, the friends find their connection tested for the first time.
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My Life in Ruins
2009 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
A Greek tour guide named Georgia attempts to recapture her kefi (Greek for mojo) by guiding a ragtag group of tourists around Greece and showing them the beauty of her native land. Along the way, she manages to open their eyes to the...
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Daughter of the Wolf
2019 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
Ex-military specialist Clair Hamilton returns home from her tour in the Middle East due to her father's passing and to claim her inheritance. Her son is then kidnapped and held for ransom by a gang led by a mysterious figure known only as...
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Paranoia
2013 · Film
5.7/10 · TMDB
An entry-level employee at a powerful corporation finds himself occupying a corner office, but at a dangerous price—he must spy on his boss's old mentor to secure for him a multi-billion dollar advantage.
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