# The best Martin Scorsese movies

The top 20 of Martin Scorsese's fiction features and music documentaries, ranked by consensus between critics' rankings (Rolling Stone, Gold Derby, Collider) and Rotten Tomatoes and IMDb scores.

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## Top 20

1. **Goodfellas** (148 · ▲161 ▼13) — 1990. Henry Hill's life in the mob, with Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro and Joe Pesci (Oscar); 96% on Rotten Tomatoes and 8.7 on IMDb.
2. **Taxi Driver** (111 · ▲123 ▼12) — 1976. Travis Bickle in a sleazy New York: 'You talkin' to me?'; Palme d'Or.
3. **Raging Bull** (102 · ▲110 ▼8) — 1980. De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta in black and white; Oscar for Best Actor.
4. **The Departed** (95 · ▲101 ▼6) — 2006. Infiltrators in the Boston police and the Irish mob; Scorsese's long-awaited Best Director and Best Picture Oscars.
5. **Killers of the Flower Moon** (76 · ▲87 ▼11) — 2023. The Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma, with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio.
6. **Mean Streets** (72 · ▲84 ▼12) — 1973. Harvey Keitel and De Niro in Little Italy; the film that made Scorsese's name.
7. **The Irishman** (69 · ▲78 ▼9) — 2019. De Niro, Pacino and Pesci over half a century of mob history, digitally de-aged; 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
8. **The King of Comedy** (53 · ▲60 ▼7) — 1982. De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, who kidnaps a talk-show host to get on TV.
9. **The Age of Innocence** (51 · ▲63 ▼12) — 1993. Edith Wharton's 1870s New York, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer.
10. **The Last Waltz** (51 · ▲61 ▼10) — 1978. The Band's farewell concert with Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young; 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
11. **Casino** (49 · ▲62 ▼13) — 1995. Las Vegas in the 1970s with De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci.
12. **After Hours** (47 · ▲60 ▼13) — 1985. A night of absurd misadventures in SoHo; Best Director at Cannes.
13. **Silence** (40 · ▲51 ▼11) — 2016. Two Jesuits in 17th-century Japan, from Shūsaku Endō's novel; a decades-long passion project.
14. **The Wolf of Wall Street** (37 · ▲47 ▼10) — 2013. DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort; a record number of f-words for a feature at the time.
15. **Hugo** (29 · ▲40 ▼11) — 2011. A boy in a Paris railway station and Georges Méliès; five Oscars.
16. **Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore** (26 · ▲37 ▼11) — 1974. Ellen Burstyn as a widow starting over; Oscar for Best Actress.
17. **The Aviator** (25 · ▲37 ▼12) — 2004. DiCaprio as Howard Hughes; Cate Blanchett won an Oscar as Katharine Hepburn.
18. **The Last Temptation of Christ** (23 · ▲35 ▼12) — 1988. Willem Dafoe as a doubting Jesus, from Nikos Kazantzakis.
19. **No Direction Home: Bob Dylan** (20 · ▲36 ▼16) — 2005. A documentary on Dylan's early years up to 1966.
20. **Bringing Out the Dead** (16 · ▲23 ▼7) — Scorsese's 1999 film with Nicolas Cage as an exhausted New York paramedic, written by Paul Schrader.
21. **Gangs of New York** (16 · ▲22 ▼6) — Scorsese's 2002 epic set in 1860s Five Points, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher.
22. **Shutter Island** (15 · ▲30 ▼15) — 2010. A U.S. marshal investigates a disappearance at an island asylum in 1954.

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