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Roger Spottiswoode has 13 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1980s through the 2010s. 1 ranks in the Top 10%, led by A Street Cat Named Bob.
Recurring themes

Next of Kin
1989
Action · Crime

Marked for Death
1990
Action · Crime

Out for Justice
1991
Action · Crime

The Rookie
1990
Action · Crime

No Mercy
1986
Action · Crime

Lock Up
1989
Action · Crime

Kill Me Again
1989
Drama · Action

Collateral Damage
2002
Action · Thriller

A Street Cat Named Bob
2016 · Movie · Director
Top 3%Tubi · Free w/ ads

Turner & Hooch
1989 · Movie · Director
Top 49%Disney+ · Included

48 Hrs.
1982 · Movie · Writer
Top 53%Netflix · Included

Under Fire
1983 · Movie · Director
Top 57%Prime Video · Included

And the Band Played On
1993 · Movie · Director
Top 63%Max · Included

The 6th Day
2000 · Movie · Director
Top 71%Tubi · Free w/ ads

James Bowen, a homeless busker and recovering drug addict, has his life transformed when he meets a stray ginger cat.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Luke Treadaway, Ruta Gedmintas, Joanne Froggatt

When a cunning murderer vanishes into the rugged mountains of the Pacific Northwest, pursuing FBI agent Warren Stantin must exchange familiar city streets for unknown wilderness trails. Completely out of his element, Stantin is forced to enlist the aid of expert tracker Jonathan Knox. It's a turbulent yet vital relationship they must maintain in order to survive... and one that becomes increasingly desperate when Knox's girlfriend Sarah becomes the killer's latest hostage!
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Sidney Poitier, Tom Berenger, Kirstie Alley

Detective Scott Turner has three days left in the local police department before he moves to a bigger city to get some 'real' cases—not just misdemeanors. When Amos Reed is murdered, Scott sets himself on the case, but the closest thing to a witness to the murder is Reed's dog, Hooch, which Scott has to take care of—to avoid Hooch being 'put to sleep'.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Tom Hanks, Mare Winningham, Craig T. Nelson
A hard-nosed cop reluctantly teams up with a wise-cracking criminal temporarily paroled to him, in order to track down a killer.
Dir. Walter Hill · With Nick Nolte, Eddie Murphy, Annette O'Toole

Three U.S. journalists get too close to one another and their work in 1979 Nicaragua.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Nick Nolte, Gene Hackman, Joanna Cassidy

About young British journalist, George Hogg, who with the assistance of a courageous Australian nurse, saves a group of orphaned children during the Japanese occupation of China in 1937.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Radha Mitchell, Chow Yun-Fat

A deranged media mogul is staging international incidents to pit the world's superpowers against each other. Now James Bond must take on this evil mastermind in an adrenaline-charged battle to end his reign of terror and prevent global pandemonium.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Pierce Brosnan, Jonathan Pryce, Michelle Yeoh
A masked killer targets six college kids responsible for a prank gone wrong three years earlier and who are currently throwing a large New Year's Eve costume party aboard a moving train.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Ben Johnson, Jamie Lee Curtis, Hart Bochner

The story of the discovery of the AIDS epidemic and the political infighting of the scientific community hampering the early fight with it.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Matthew Modine, Alan Alda, Patrick Bauchau

A world of the very near future in which cattle, fish, and even the family pet can be cloned. But cloning humans is illegal - that is until family man Adam Gibson comes home from work one day to find a clone has replaced him. Taken from his family and plunged into a sinister world he doesn't understand, Gibson must not only save himself from the assassins who must destroy him to protect their secret, but uncover who and what is behind the horrible things happening to him.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Arnold Schwarzenegger, Michael Rapaport, Tony Goldwyn

Air America was the CIA's private airline operating in Laos during the Vietnam War, running anything and everything from soldiers to foodstuffs for local villagers. After losing his pilot's license, Billy Covington is recruited, and ends up in the middle of a bunch of lunatic pilots, gun-running by his friend Gene Ryack, and opium smuggling by his own superiors.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Mel Gibson, Robert Downey Jr., Nancy Travis

A small-town loser determines to have one more shot at the big time by winning a football game.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Robin Williams, Kurt Russell, Pamela Reed
A tough police sergeant's mother comes to visit him, and promptly starts trying to fix up his life, much to his embarrassment. For his birthday she buys him a machine gun out of the back of a van, and begins to further interfere with his job and love life, eventually helping him with a case he's on.
Dir. Roger Spottiswoode · With Sylvester Stallone, Estelle Getty, JoBeth Williams