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Richard Dreyfuss has 34 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1970s through the 2020s. 1 sits in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including Jaws.
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Just to Be Sure
2017
Drama · Comedy

My Piece of the Pie
2011
Drama · Comedy

The Way Way Back
2013
Comedy · Drama

Instructions Not Included
2013
Comedy · Drama

I Got Life!
2017
Drama · Comedy

Florence Foster Jenkins
2016
Comedy · Drama

Boy
2010
Drama · Comedy

A Long Way Down
2014
Comedy · Drama

American Graffiti
1973 · Movie · Actor
Top 16%Netflix · Included

What About Bob?
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 23%AMC+ · Included

Spielberg
2017 · Movie · Actor
Top 24%Max · Included

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
1991 · Movie · Actor
Top 27%MGM+ · Included

The Goodbye Girl
1977 · Movie · Actor
Top 28%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Stakeout
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 39%Prime Video · Included
When the seaside community of Amity finds itself under attack by a dangerous great white shark, the town's chief of police, a young marine biologist, and a grizzled shark hunter embark on a desperate quest to kill the beast before it strikes again.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Roy Scheider, Robert Shaw, Richard Dreyfuss

After an encounter with UFOs, an electricity linesman feels undeniably drawn to an isolated area in the wilderness where something spectacular is about to happen.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Richard Dreyfuss, François Truffaut, Teri Garr

A couple of high school graduates spend one final night cruising the strip with their buddies before they go off to college.
Dir. George Lucas · With Richard Dreyfuss, Ron Howard, Paul Le Mat

After surviving an assault from a squad of hit men, retired CIA black ops agent Frank Moses reassembles his old team for an all-out war. Frank reunites with old Joe, crazy Marvin and wily Victoria to uncover a massive conspiracy that threatens their lives. Only their expert training will allow them to survive a near-impossible mission -- breaking into CIA headquarters.
Dir. Robert Schwentke · With Bruce Willis, John Malkovich, Morgan Freeman

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. Marvin tries to get him to leave; the trouble is, everyone loves Bob. As his oblivious patient makes himself at home, Dr. Marvin loses his professional composure and, before long, may be ready for the loony bin himself.
Dir. Frank Oz · With Bill Murray, Richard Dreyfuss, Julie Hagerty
A documentary on the life and career of one of the most influential film directors of all time, Steven Spielberg.
Dir. Susan Lacy · With Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Richard Dreyfuss

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, minor characters from the play 'Hamlet', find themselves on the road to Elsinore Castle at the behest of the King of Denmark. The duo encounter a band of players before arriving to find that they are needed to try to discern what troubles the prince Hamlet. Meanwhile, they ponder the meaning of their existence.
Dir. Tom Stoppard · With Gary Oldman, Tim Roth, Richard Dreyfuss

After being dumped by her live-in boyfriend, an unemployed dancer and her 10-year-old daughter are reluctantly forced to live with a struggling off-Broadway actor.
Dir. Herbert Ross · With Richard Dreyfuss, Marsha Mason, Quinn Cummings

Two detectives observe an escaped convict's ex-girlfriend, but complications set in when one of them falls for her.
Dir. John Badham · With Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Madeleine Stowe

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 but generations of students inspired through his teaching, Holland must redefine his life's purpose.
Dir. Stephen Herek · With Richard Dreyfuss, Glenne Headly, Jay Thomas

A substance-addicted actress tries to look on the bright side even as she's forced to move back in with her mother to avoid unemployment.
Dir. Mike Nichols · With Meryl Streep, Shirley MacLaine, Dennis Quaid

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.
Dir. Henry Selick · With Paul Terry, Miriam Margolyes, Joanna Lumley
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.
Dir. Christian Sesma · With Scout Taylor-Compton, Richard Dreyfuss, Stuart Townsend

A minor car accident drives two rival aluminum-siding salesmen to the ridiculous extremes of man versus man in 1963 Baltimore.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Richard Dreyfuss, Danny DeVito, Barbara Hershey

After a shoot-out kills five FBI agents in Kansas City the Bureau target John Dillinger as one of the men to hunt down. Waiting for him to break Federal law they sort out several other mobsters, while Dillinger's bank robbing exploits make him something of a folk hero. Escaping from jail he finds Pretty Boy Floyd and Baby Face Nelson have joined the gang and pretty soon he is Public Enemy Number One. Now the G-men really are after him.
Dir. John Milius · With Warren Oates, Ben Johnson, Michelle Phillips

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 wonders of an exotic foreign land while beginning to see the world through a new set of eyes in the process.
Dir. Donald Petrie · With Nia Vardalos, Richard Dreyfuss, Alexis Georgoulis
When 9-year-old orphan Oliver Twist dares to ask his cruel taskmaster, Mr. Bumble, for a second serving of gruel, he's hired out as an apprentice. Escaping that dismal fate, young Oliver falls in with the street urchin known as the Artful Dodger and his criminal mentor, Fagin. When kindly Mr. Brownlow takes Oliver in, Fagin's evil henchman Bill Sikes plots to kidnap the boy.
Dir. Tony Bill · With Richard Dreyfuss, Elijah Wood, David O'Hara

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 decimate his approval ratings.
Dir. Rob Reiner · With Michael Douglas, Annette Bening, Martin Sheen

The spirit of a recently deceased expert pilot mentors a newer pilot while watching him fall in love with the girlfriend that he left behind.
Dir. Steven Spielberg · With Richard Dreyfuss, Holly Hunter, John Goodman

An Ivy League professor returns home, where his pot-growing twin brother has concocted a plan to take down a local drug lord.
Dir. Tim Blake Nelson · With Edward Norton, Susan Sarandon, Richard Dreyfuss

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.
Dir. Bill Holderman · With Diane Keaton, Jane Fonda, Candice Bergen

A newly elected District attorney finds himself in the middle of a police corruption investigation that may involve his father and his partner.
Dir. Sidney Lumet · With Andy Garcia, Ian Holm, James Gandolfini

A high-class call girl accused of murder fights for the right to stand trial rather than be declared mentally incompetent.
Dir. Martin Ritt · With Barbra Streisand, Richard Dreyfuss, Maureen Stapleton

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.
Dir. Paul Mazursky · With Nick Nolte, Bette Midler, Richard Dreyfuss
Asher is a former Mossad agent turned gun for hire, living an austere life in an ever-changing Brooklyn. Approaching the end of his career, he breaks the oath he took as a young man when he meets Sophie on a hit gone wrong. In order to have love in his life before it's too late, he must kill the man he was, for a chance at becoming the man he wants to be.
Dir. Michael Caton-Jones · With Ron Perlman, Famke Janssen, Richard Dreyfuss

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 life, family, and career.
Dir. Mora Stephens · With Patrick Wilson, Lena Headey, Richard Dreyfuss

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.
Dir. Wolfgang Petersen · With Josh Lucas, Kurt Russell, Jacinda Barrett
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.
Dir. Oliver Stone · With Josh Brolin, Colin Hanks, Toby Jones
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 “Father”.
Dir. David Hackl · With Gina Carano, Brendan Fehr, Anton Gillis-Adelman
A pair of immature detectives are joined by a pesky assistant district attorney in staking out a lakeside home where an important Mafia trial witness is believed to be heading.
Dir. John Badham · With Richard Dreyfuss, Emilio Estevez, Rosie O'Donnell
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