The Curse of the Living Corpse (1964)
Horror
Relatives gather in an old house for the reading of a will, but the "dead" man comes back to life and starts killing.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Milli, Margot Hartman, Dino Narizzano, Candace Hilligoss, Del Tenney
Director: Del Tenney
Still of the Night (1982)
Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller
A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Meryl Streep, Jessica Tandy, Joe Grifasi, Sara Botsford, Josef Sommer
Director: Robert Benton
Jaws 2 (1978)
Adventure | Horror | Thriller
Another giant Great White Shark terrorizes beach goers in this sequel to Steven Spielberg's summer blockbuster.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Joseph Mascolo, Jeffrey Kramer, Collin Wilcox Paxton
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
All That Jazz (1979)
Drama | Fantasy | Music | Musical
Joe Gideon is the ultimate work (and pleasure)-aholic, as he knocks back a daily dose of amphetamines to juggle a new Broadway production while editing his new movie, not to mention ex-wife Audrey, steady girlfriend Kate (Ann Reinking), a young daughter, and various conquests. Joe cannot, however, avoid intimations of mortality from white-clad vision Angelique (Jessica Lange) that lead him to look back at his life as he heads for a near-inevitable coronary and his departure from this mortal coil with the appropriate razzle-dazzle.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Jessica Lange, Ann Reinking, Leland Palmer, Cliff Gorman, Ben Vereen
Director: Bob Fosse
Sorcerer / Wages of Fear (1977)
Action | Adventure | Drama
A group of outcasts from different backgrounds/nationalities are forced by misfortune to work in a remote oil drilling operation in South America. When fire breaks out of control, four of the outcasts are given the opportunity to earn enough money to get out by transporting six crates of unstable dynamite through miles of jungle in two ancient trucks. Will they succeed and regain their honor and citizenship, or get blown up for their efforts?
Starring: Roy Scheider, Peter Capell, Bruno Cremer, Francisco Rabal, Friedrich von Ledebur, Joe Spinell
Director: William Friedkin
Puzzle of a Downfall Child (1970)
Drama
Lou Andreas Sand, a once famous model, recalls her past as she tries to make success in the modeling world of New York…
Starring: Faye Dunaway, Barry Primus, Viveca Lindfors, Barry Morse, Roy Scheider, Barbara Carrera
Director: Jerry Schatzberg
Naked Lunch / Il Pasto Nudo (1991)
Biography | Comedy | Drama | Fantasy
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 bugs in an Islamic port town in Africa.
Starring: Peter Weller, Judy Davis, Ian Holm, Julian Sands, Roy Scheider
Director: David Cronenberg
Marathon Man (1976)
Thriller
In New York City, the brother of an infamous Nazi war criminal is killed in a head on collision car accident. Shortly thereafter, members of a covert US government group called "The Division" begin to be murdered one by one. When the brother to one Division member sees his brother knifed to death, it is revealed that former SS dentist Szell, "the White Angel" of Auschwitz, is wrapping up loose ends to smuggle priceless diamonds from the United States.
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Laurence Olivier, Roy Scheider, William Devane, Marthe Keller, Fritz Weaver
Director: John Schlesinger
Klute (1971)
Mystery | Thriller
Directed by Alan J. Pakula (The Pelican Brief, Presumed Innocent), Klute is a spellbinder that's both love story and taut thriller. As detective John Klute, Donald Sutherland gives a cool performance devoid of screen sleuth cliches. And Jane Fonda makes Bree a shattering tour-de-force that swept 1971's Best Actress honors, including the Academy Award,® the Golden Globe® and the New York Film Critics Award. "There isn't a another young dramatic actress in American films who can touch her," Pauline Kael wrote. To followers of Fonda's remarkable career, there still isn't.
Starring: Jane Fonda, Donald Sutherland, Charles Cioffi, Roy Scheider, Dorothy Tristan
Director: Alan J. Pakula
2010: The Year We Make Contact / 2010 (1984)
Adventure | Mystery | Sci-Fi | Thriller
A new time, a new odyssey, a new chance to confront enigmas arising from the daring Jupiter mission of 2001. Crew members aboard the Leonov will rendezvous with the still-orbiting Discovery. And their fate will rest on the silicon shoulders of the computer they reawaken, HAL-9000.
Starring: Roy Scheider, John Lithgow, Helen Mirren, Bob Balaban, Keir Dullea, Douglas Rain
Director: Peter Hyams
The Russia House (1990)
Drama | Romance | Thriller
An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia.
Starring: Sean Connery, Michelle Pfeiffer, Roy Scheider, James Fox, John Mahoney, Klaus Maria Brandauer
Director: Fred Schepisi
Jaws (1975)
Thriller
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 a marine biologist and an old seafarer to hunt the monster down.
Starring: Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss, Lorraine Gary, Murray Hamilton, Carl Gottlieb
Director: Steven Spielberg
The Punisher (2004)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
The Punisher walks through the world we all know, a world darkened by war, crime, cruelty and injustice. He has no superpowers to battle the evil he sees – only his fierce intelligence, his years of combat experience, and above all, his iron determination to avenge those wronged by society's villains.
Starring: Thomas Jane, John Travolta, Will Patton, Roy Scheider, Laura Elena Harring
Director: Jonathan Hensleigh
The French Connection (1971)
Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Tough-talking New York City detective Popeye Doyle and his partner uncover an international drug smuggling ring, but it's Doyle's feverish and relentless pursuit of the suspects that drives the investigation forward.
Starring: Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Roy Scheider, Tony Lo Bianco, Marcel Bozzuffi
Director: William Friedkin
