The Best Rod Steiger Movies

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List of the best Rod Steiger movies, ranked best to worst with movie trailers when available. Rod Steiger's highest grossing movies have received a lot of accolades over the years, earning millions upon millions around the world. The order of these top Rod Steiger movies is decided by how many votes they receive, so only highly rated Rod Steiger movies will be at the top of the list. Rod Steiger has been in a lot of films, so people often debate each other over what the greatest Rod Steiger movie of all time is. If you and a friend are arguing about this then use this list of the most entertaining Rod Steiger films to end the squabble once and for all.

If you think the best Rod Steiger role isn't at the top, then upvote it so it has the chance to become number one. The greatest Rod Steiger performances didn't necessarily come from the best movies, but in most cases they go hand in hand.

Items include everything from Love and Bullets to Modern Vampires.

"This list answers the questions, "What are the best Rod Steiger movies?" and "What are the greatest Rod Steiger roles of all time?"

Notable directors that worked with Rod Steiger include names like Tim Burton, Sidney Lumet and Otto Preminger. If Rod Steiger movies are your thing, then check out the greatest movies by John Garfield and Ray Milland too.

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  • In the Heat of the Night
    1
    Sidney Poitier, Rod Steiger, Warren Oates
    87 votes
    • Released: 1967
    • Directed by: Norman Jewison
    African-American Philadelphia police detective Virgil Tibbs (Sidney Poitier) is arrested on suspicion of murder by Bill Gillespie (Rod Steiger), the racist police chief of tiny Sparta, Mississippi. ...more

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  • On the Waterfront
    2
    Marlon Brando, Eva Marie Saint, Karl Malden
    52 votes
    • Released: 1954
    • Directed by: Elia Kazan
    Dockworker Terry Malloy (Marlon Brando) had been an up-and-coming boxer until powerful local mob boss Johnny Friendly (Lee J. Cobb) persuaded him to throw a fight. When a longshoreman is murdered ...more

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  • Doctor Zhivago
    3
    Omar Sharif, Julie Christie, Geraldine Chaplin
    54 votes
    • Released: 1965
    • Directed by: David Lean
    During the Russian Revolution, Yuri Zhivago (Omar Sharif), is a young doctor who has been raised by his aunt and uncle following his father's suicide. Yuri falls in love with beautiful Lara Guishar ...more
  • The Pawnbroker
    4
    Rod Steiger, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Brock Peters
    63 votes
    • Released: 1964
    • Directed by: Sidney Lumet
    Based on the novel by Edward Lewis Wallant, this drama focuses on former professor Sol Nazerman (Rod Steiger), the survivor of a German concentration camp who now runs a pawn shop in East Harlem. ...more

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  • Waterloo
    5
    Orson Welles, Christopher Plummer, Rod Steiger
    48 votes
    • Released: 1970
    • Directed by: Sergei Bondarchuk
    Waterloo is a 1970 Soviet-Italian film directed by Sergei Bondarchuk and produced by Dino De Laurentiis. It depicts the story of the preliminary events and the Battle of Waterloo, and is famous for ...more
  • Oklahoma!
    6
    Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger
    42 votes
    • Released: 1955
    • Directed by: Fred Zinnemann
    There's a box social coming up, and Curly (Gordon MacRae) asks Laurey (Shirley Jones) if she'll be his date. Trouble is, Laurey thinks he's waited too long, and in a fit of pique accepts an offer ...more