The best Martin Scorsese movies
The top 3 according to 1,645 votes from people: Goodfellas · Taxi Driver · Raging Bull. (Updated Jul 18, 2025.)
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.
Top 20
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1
Goodfellas
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.
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Taxi Driver
1976. Travis Bickle in a sleazy New York: 'You talkin' to me?'; Palme d'Or.
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Raging Bull
1980. De Niro as boxer Jake LaMotta in black and white; Oscar for Best Actor.
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The Departed
2006. Infiltrators in the Boston police and the Irish mob; Scorsese's long-awaited Best Director and Best Picture Oscars.
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Killers of the Flower Moon
2023. The Osage murders in 1920s Oklahoma, with Lily Gladstone and Leonardo DiCaprio.
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Mean Streets
1973. Harvey Keitel and De Niro in Little Italy; the film that made Scorsese's name.
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The Irishman
2019. De Niro, Pacino and Pesci over half a century of mob history, digitally de-aged; 95% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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The King of Comedy
1982. De Niro as Rupert Pupkin, who kidnaps a talk-show host to get on TV.
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The Age of Innocence
1993. Edith Wharton's 1870s New York, with Daniel Day-Lewis and Michelle Pfeiffer.
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10
The Last Waltz
1978. The Band's farewell concert with Dylan, Joni Mitchell and Neil Young; 98% on Rotten Tomatoes.
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Casino
1995. Las Vegas in the 1970s with De Niro, Sharon Stone and Joe Pesci.
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12
After Hours
1985. A night of absurd misadventures in SoHo; Best Director at Cannes.
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Silence
2016. Two Jesuits in 17th-century Japan, from Shūsaku Endō's novel; a decades-long passion project.
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The Wolf of Wall Street
2013. DiCaprio as Jordan Belfort; a record number of f-words for a feature at the time.
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Hugo
2011. A boy in a Paris railway station and Georges Méliès; five Oscars.
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Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
1974. Ellen Burstyn as a widow starting over; Oscar for Best Actress.
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The Aviator
2004. DiCaprio as Howard Hughes; Cate Blanchett won an Oscar as Katharine Hepburn.
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The Last Temptation of Christ
1988. Willem Dafoe as a doubting Jesus, from Nikos Kazantzakis.
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No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
2005. A documentary on Dylan's early years up to 1966.
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Bringing Out the Dead
Scorsese's 1999 film with Nicolas Cage as an exhausted New York paramedic, written by Paul Schrader.
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Gangs of New York
Scorsese's 2002 epic set in 1860s Five Points, with Daniel Day-Lewis as Bill the Butcher.
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Shutter Island
2010. A U.S. marshal investigates a disappearance at an island asylum in 1954.
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Comments (9)
Goodfellas at #1, as it should be.
The King of Comedy is his most underrated film, De Niro is incredible.
Taxi Driver should be #1, fight me
Wolf of Wall Street at #13 is too low, it's the most entertaining 3 hours ever
No Direction Home is one of the best music docs ever made
Where are Gangs of New York and Bringing Out the Dead?
Silence is a masterpiece nobody saw
Killers of the Flower Moon already at #5 is deserved, Lily Gladstone 🙌
After Hours is such a weird fun movie