# The best Robert De Niro movies

From Mean Streets to The Irishman: the best of De Niro, with Scorsese, Coppola and Leone. Ranking based on Sky TG24, Longtake and Eroica Fenice.

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- Feb 23, 2023 · Roberta D.
- https://even.best/en/l/4061/the-best-robert-de-niro-movies

## Top 10

1. **Raging Bull (1980)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Boxer Jake LaMotta: his best-actor Oscar.
2. **The Godfather Part II (1974)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — The young Vito Corleone, played in Sicilian.
3. **The Deer Hunter (1978)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Three steelworker friends and the Vietnam War.
4. **Mean Streets (1973)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — His first film with Scorsese, in Little Italy.
5. **The Untouchables (1987)** (1 · ▲1 ▼0) — Al Capone against Eliot Ness, by Brian De Palma.
6. **Once Upon a Time in America (1984)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Noodles and fifty years of friendship and betrayal, by Sergio Leone.
7. **Taxi Driver (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Travis Bickle and night-time New York; Palme d'Or at Cannes.
8. **Goodfellas (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Jimmy Conway, in one of the greatest gangster films ever.
9. **Heat (1995)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Robber Neil McCauley against Al Pacino.
10. **The King of Comedy (1983)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Rupert Pupkin, a would-be comic obsessed with TV.
11. **1900 (1976)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Landowner Alfredo in Bertolucci's Emilian epic.
12. **Awakenings (1990)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A patient who wakes after thirty years, with Robin Williams.
13. **Cape Fear (1991)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Max Cady, the ex-con out for revenge.
14. **The Mission (1986)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — A repentant mercenary among the Jesuits in South America.
15. **The Irishman (2019)** (0 · ▲0 ▼0) — Frank Sheeran, digitally de-aged by Scorsese.

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