Roy Scheider films, ranked by your taste

Actor · 17 films on Boxlist

Known for Jaws, Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story and The French Connection.

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Starring Roy Scheider

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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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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The French Connection
1971 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
Tough narcotics detective 'Popeye' Doyle is in hot pursuit of a suave French drug dealer who may be the key to a huge heroin-smuggling operation.
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Sorcerer
1977 · Film
7.4/10 · TMDB
Four men from different parts of the globe, all hiding from their pasts in the same remote South American town, agree to risk their lives transporting several cases of dynamite (which is so old that it is dripping unstable nitroglycerin)...
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Klute
1971 · Film
6.8/10 · TMDB
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.
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The Rainmaker
1997 · Film
7.0/10 · TMDB
When Rudy Baylor, a young attorney with no clients, goes to work for a seedy ambulance chaser, he wants to help the parents of a terminally ill boy in their suit against an insurance company. But to take on corporate America, Rudy and a...
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Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters
1985 · Film
7.9/10 · TMDB
A fictional account of the life of Japanese author Yukio Mishima told in four parts. The first three parts relate events in three of his novels: The Temple of the Golden Pavilion, Kyoko's House, and Runaway Horses. The last part depicts...
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Marathon Man
1976 · Film
7.3/10 · TMDB
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.
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Naked Lunch
1991 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Blank-faced bug killer Bill Lee and his dead-eyed wife, Joan, like to get high on Bill's pest poisons while lounging with Beat poet pals. After meeting the devilish Dr. Benway, Bill gets a drug made from a centipede. Upon indulging, he...
Blue Thunder
1983 · Film
6.1/10 · TMDB
Los Angeles, California. Officer Murphy, a veteran Metropolitan Police helicopter pilot suffering from severe trauma due to his harsh experiences during the Vietnam War, and Lymangood, his resourceful new partner, are tasked with testing...
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The Russia House
1990 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Barley Scott Blair, a Lisbon-based editor of Russian literature who unexpectedly begins working for British intelligence, is commissioned to investigate the purposes of Dante, a dissident scientist trapped in the decaying Soviet Union that...
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2010
1984 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
While planet Earth poises on the brink of nuclear self-destruction, a team of Russian and American scientists aboard the Leonov hurtles to a rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery spacecraft and its sole known survivor, the homicidal...
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Jaws 2
1978 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.
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52 Pick-Up
1986 · Film
6.2/10 · TMDB
Harry Mitchell is a successful Los Angeles manufacturer whose wife is running for city council. His life is turned upside down when three blackmailers confront him with a video tape of him with his young mistress and demand $100,000...
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The Punisher
2004 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
When undercover FBI agent Frank Castle's wife and son are slaughtered, he becomes 'the Punisher' -- a ruthless vigilante willing to go to any length to avenge his family.
Dracula II: Ascension
2003 · Film
5.3/10 · TMDB
Father Uffizi hunts vampires. He travels the world to behead them with his bullwhip, but his ultimate goal is to find the first vampire, Dracula. Medical students, Liz Blaine and Luke are charged with autopsying the body. When they open...
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Jaws: The Revenge
1987 · Film
4.0/10 · TMDB
After another deadly shark attack, Ellen Brody decides she has had enough of New England's Amity Island and moves to the Caribbean to join her son, Michael, and his family. But a great white shark has followed her there, hungry for more...
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