Roy Scheider

A comedy about families, the elements that bind them together, and about hope in the face of hardship. (Goldheart Pictures)

In 1975, director Steven Spielberg brought Peter Benchley's best-selling novel to the screen with stunning power and unbearable suspense. Jaws left an indelible mark upon the movie-going (and beach-going!) public, distilling a sea of fear from these five words: "Don't go in the water." Once the terror begins, Roy Scheider, Richard Dreyfuss and Robert Shaw must join forces on a desperate quest to destroy a killer embodying nearly three tons of white death. (Universal Pictures)

A funny, sharply observed tale of an uneasy and emotionally charged New England family reunion. (Sony)

Special agent Frank Castle had it all: A loving family, a great life, and an adventurous job. But when his life is taken away from him by a ruthless criminal and his associates, Frank has become reborn. Now serving as judge, jury, and executioner, he's a new kind of vigilante out to wage a one man war against those who have done him wrong. (imdb)

An adaptation of John Grisham's novel about an idealistic young attorney who takes on the case of a lifetime.

A young man is tormented by a secret organization, run by a sadistic Nazi doctor trying to smuggle priceless diamonds into his possession (imdb)

Director/choreographer Bob Fosse tells his own life story as he details the sordid life of Joe Gideon (Roy Scheider), a womanizing, drug-using dancer. (imdb)

A pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection. (imdb)

Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters. (imdb)

A joint American-Soviet space expedition is sent to Jupiter to learn what happen to the Discovery. (imdb)

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. (imdb)

A Manhattan psychiatrist probes a patient's murder and falls for the victim's mysterious mistress.

A corrupt police sergeant who supplies tips on the locations of safeguarded witnesses to the Mob bites off more than he can chew when he attempts to assassinate a beautiful but ruthless Russian hitwoman (imdb)

The cop test pilot for an experimental police helicopter learns the sinister implications of the new vehicle. (imdb)

An expatriate British publisher unexpectedly finds himself working for British intelligence to investigate people in Russia. (imdb)

Based on the French film Salaire de la peur, Le (1953), this production begins with the individual beginnings of outcasts of different backgrounds who are forced by fortune to work in a remote oil drilling operation in South America (imdb)

A small-town detective searching for a missing man has only one lead: a connection with a New York prostitute. (imdb)

Coming to Hollywood as a celebrated boy genius featuring a spectacular career arc in New York including his "War of the Worlds" radio hoax, Orson Welles is stymied on the subject for his first film... (imdb)

New York City cops wage a war against assorted hoods and criminals after one of their own is brutally killed by a hoodlum. Seven-Ups refers to the minimum jail time each of the crooks will have to spend if they are caught. (imdb)

Connelly, a secret service agent whose contempt for the new president's morals makes him unwilling to take a bullet for the guy is transferred to 'football duty'. The football in question is the briefcase which gives the president control over the whole of America's nuclear arsenal... (imdb)

An updated version of 'William Shakespeare' 's King Lear, by way of Ran (1985), with Lear as a magnate in the Old West whose decision to divide his empire among his three daughters results in disaster. (imdb)

If I Didn't Care is a Hitchcockian film noir/thriller set in the exclusive resort community of The Hamptons. The film tells the story of Davis Meyers' ill-fated attempt to produce an heir that leads to infidelity, murder and tragic consequences. The film captures the picturesque setting and watering holes of the Hamptons to create the feel of a classic film noir in the style of the '˜40s and '˜50s. (Artistic License Films)

Set against the background of South Africa's emerald coast and diamond mines, Diamond Hunters traces the torrid fortunes of a family unable to forgive and forget. Johnny, a successful diamond hunter, gets sucked back into a family that had been his own, before the patriarch, Jacob Van der Byl, abandoned him 20 years ago. Painful memories of an unjust father and a long lost love come back to reality as Johnny is pitted against his own half-brother Benedict in a fight over two women... (imdb)

A stunt driver (Michael Madsen) heading for prison on a minor charge is freed against his will by a terrorist gang. Then by kidnapping his wife, he is forced to drive a getaway car in a plot to kidnap the President from a motorcade. (imdb)

Harry Mitchell, an L.A. manufacturer with a fancy car, a nice house, and a wife running for city council, has his life overturned when three hooded blackmailers appear with a video tape of Harry and his young mistress. He's been set up, and they want $100,000. To protect his wife's political ambitions, Harry won't go to the police; instead, he shines them on and then doesn't pay... (imdb)

Archival footage, animation, and music are used to look back at the eight anti-war protesters who were put on trial following the 1968 Democratic National Convention. (imdb)

Rufus Sinclair was a cranky old millionaire with a terrible fear of being buried alive. After his apparent death, clauses in his will meant to prevent his being buried alive are violated by his uncaring family, and soon a masked figure begins prowling the family's Connecticut estate, slaughtering the family members one by one in a variety of separate, horrible ways. (imdb)

It begins with an ancient warning. It ends at the edge of Niagara Falls. In between there are 5 murders. Solve the mystery. Or die trying. Harry breaks down and loses his job after his wife is assassinated - could it be his turn next ? (imdb)

The cast and crew of the classic movie discuss its production and cultural impact.

Sheila Levine is a Jewish-American princess and a native of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania.An innovative, bright, but painfully introverted individual, she comes to New York City with her mother and father to take an apartment with a nightclub-hopping roommate. Persuaded to go to a nightclub one night, she meets a doctor named Sam Stoneman who is on the hunt for a one-night stand. Sheila develops an intense attraction towards Sam who seemingly is attracted to Sheila's desperately flirtatious roommate. (imdb)

FBI Special Agent Travis is trying to catch a deranged serial killer and is doing his best despite having a new and unexperienced partner in the form of Kelly McCord. It turns out that the serial killer is an entire army of disgruntled CIA mercenaries from Vietnam. (imdb)

Father Uffizi (Jason Scott Lee) and Luke (Jason London) travels through a Romania destroyed by the civil war and the vampires. Luke is trying to save Elizabeth (Diane Neal) from the claws of Dracula, and Uffizi to terminate with the vampires. Along their journey, they meet the British television journalist Julia Hughes (Alexandra Westcourt) covering the war, and the trio follow together facing dangerous situations with the rebels and the vampires. (imdb)

Jean-Louis Tritignant stars as Lucien, a hit man who goes to Los Angeles to end the life of an important local mobster. The mobster's heirs, who hired Lucien, had already hired yet another hit man (Roy Scheider) to kill him. He speaks very little English, and the lifestyles and customs of Los Angeles puzzle him completely. (MSN Movies)

A young Tigers fan believes his attending (and praying) Tigers' baseball games helps the team win. Sure enough, the Tigers' improved play pushes them into contention.

When a terrorist group steals the US President's personal communications computer for launching the US arsenal in case of war, only a heroic Major has the key to prevent a Presidential assassination or a nuclear holocaust. (imdb)

Clayton Pierce is an agent working under deep cover. Although he is a top agent, he is questioning his loyalty after twenty years of service. His devotion has already cost him his wife, family and personal life. During a de-briefing from his last assignment, he is unknowingly administered the drug Oblivion, which destroys brain cells causing permanent memory loss. Within a few days of injection, the drug's effects become irreversible... (imdb)

An all-star cast, including Daryl Hannah, Roy Scheider and Tia Carrere, headlines this thriller about a newly married couple who set off for a romantic honeymoon on the Oregon coast, where people begin to mysteriously die all around them. Though he's been head over heels for her since the start of their brief romance, the groom begins to suspect that his bride holds some dark and terrible secrets and may be behind the gruesome occurrences.

A boy kidnapped by two mismatched hitmen puts them at each other's throats while being driven to their employers, possibly to be killed. Cohen, an older professional becomes increasingly irritated with his partner Tate, a brutish killer, when their prisoner uses unnatural guile and resourcefulness to play them off against each other. (imdb)

Short documentary about the film Marathon Man

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, an advertising executive, her friendship with photographer Aaron, and her downward spiral into ruin.

A group of men get together to form a "discussion group". They share their feelings about women, life, love, and work. The party gets rowdier and rowdier, and then the wife returns home. Thrown out, the men are not yet willing to call it a night... (imdb)

Hired to rescue escaped inmates, a Florida man is framed for a Cuban gangster's assassination. (imdb)

Producer Marty Rockman has a new concept for a TV show. Every week a real criminal case will be shown before all spectators in America, that will be the jury too, deciding death or freedom. First contestant is Ricky Carr, accused of the rape and murder of celebrity Dolly Hamilton. But once they are investigating, it seems that Ricky may be innocent, though American people is against him.

A group of college debaters learn about the world, friendships, love, dreams and family in this warm, endearing drama. (imdb)

L'Attentat is a political thriller based largely on a true story (the Ben Barka affair), which recounts how the French government and the American CIA connived to have a socialist in exile murdered before he could return to his homeland and start a revolution.

Cold War drama about two gung-ho border commanders (Roy Scheider, Jurgen Prochnow) who carry out their own private war against each other on the German - Czechoslovakia border. (imdb)

A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins. (imdb)

When Redwood Federal Penitentiary closes, there are going to be several hundred prisoners looking for a new home. Several of the most dangerous, all killers, will be transported by train to Santa Ana, a new high tech prison for the worst of the worst. Included in this transfer are: -Ian Kelly, explosions expert who has set off terrorist bombings worldwide. -Lorenzo "Enzo" Martini, a mafia kingpin who enjoyed nationwide fame before finally being put away. (imdb)

A journalist gets pulled into an intrigue by his editor that involves a story that he received a Pulitzer for years before. It seems that the second largest diamond ever mined was used during World War II to buy a Jewish woman freedom from a prison camp. Only trouble is it disappeared after the war and now everyone is after it, including the Russians, former Nazis, gangsters, and the original owner. (imdb)

Undercover agent, using his bar as a front, battles three killers to find a stolen fortune. (imdb)

Colonel Peter Stride is on the trail of a mysterious international criminal known only as Caliph.

A rich, jet-setting playboy has a secret life: he's also a professional Mafia hitman. When he decides it's time to retire from that life, he finds that his former employers don't like the idea that someone who knows so much about them won't be under their control anymore, and decide to send their own hitmen to eliminate him.

Dillan Johansen (Ted McGinley) is a disorganized transit authority supervisor suffering from a serious personal tragedy. His boss, the stern-yet-kindly Stan Marshall (Roy Scheider), is understanding and has a lot of faith in the younger man. That faith -- and Dillan's bravery -- are put to the test the day a major earthquake hits Los Angeles and traps Dillan in an underground tunnel with a handful of subway riders. (allmovie.com)

In the early 21st century, mankind has colonized the oceans. The United Earth Oceans Organization enlists Captain Nathan Bridger and the submarine seaQuest DSV to keep the peace and explore the last frontier on Earth.

Joseph, a retired New York police officer, travels to Nuremberg to visit his son years after turning his back on him. No sooner does Joseph attempt to heal the rift with Ronnie, when he swears that living in the apartment above, under the false name of Shrager, is the now aging SS Commander who murdered his entire family in a Polish forest during WW2. (imdb)

The life and times of Lorraine Hansberry, an African-American writer and political activist, whose semi-autobiographical 1957 play "A Raisin in the Sun" became the first show on Broadway authored by an African-American.

In ancient Egypt, a servant's son is sent on the Nile with secret scrolls about a queen's treasure. Centuries later, a boy drawn to the river leads archaeologists and a thief on a quest uncovering the scrolls and his own origins. (imdb)

An easy paying job turns into a fight to the death, when college students realize that the house they're cleaning is a portal to Hell. (imdb)