The best Roy Scheider’s thriller movies on Apple iTunes

Roy Scheider

Roy Scheider

10/11/1932- 10/02/2008
If you love cinema, you will share this ranking of the best Roy Scheider’s movies, although you may have ordered them differently. In any case, we hope you love it and with a little luck discovering a movie that you still don’t know about Roy Scheider.

Jaws

Jaws
8.1/10
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.

Sorcerer

Sorcerer
7.7/10
  • Genre: AdventureThriller
  • Release: 24/06/1977
  • Character: Jackie Scanlon / 'Juan Dominguez'
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) across dangerous jungle terrain.

Klute

Klute
7.1/10
A high-priced call girl is forced to depend on a reluctant private eye when she is stalked by a psychopath.

Jaws 2

Jaws 2
5.8/10
  • Genre: HorrorThriller
  • Release: 16/06/1978
  • Character: Police Chief Martin Brody
Police chief Brody must protect the citizens of Amity after a second monstrous shark begins terrorizing the waters.

Blue Thunder

Blue Thunder
6.4/10
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 an advanced and heavily armed experimental chopper known as Blue Thunder.

Jaws: The Revenge

Jaws: The Revenge
3/10
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 lives.

Marathon Man

Marathon Man
7.4/10
  • Genre: ActionThriller
  • Release: 08/10/1976
  • Character: Henry David ‚Doc‘ Levy
A graduate student and obsessive runner in New York is drawn into a mysterious plot involving his brother, a member of the secretive Division.

The Rainmaker

The Rainmaker
7.2/10
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 scrappy paralegal must open their own law firm.

2010

2010
6.7/10
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 computer HAL.

The Russia House

The Russia House
6.1/10
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 is crumbling under the new open-minded policies.

The French Connection

The French Connection
7.7/10
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.

Still of the Night

Still of the Night
6/10
  • Genre: DramaThriller
  • Release: 19/11/1982
  • Character: Doctor Sam Rice
When one of his patients is found murdered, psychiatrist Dr. Sam Rice is visited by the investigating officer but refuses to give up any information. He's then visited by the patient's mistress, Brooke Reynolds, whom he quickly falls for despite her being a likely murder suspect. As the police pressure on him intensifies, Rice decides to attempt solving the case on his own and soon discovers that someone is trying to kill him as well.

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