Martin Scorsese's 27 narrative feature films range from beloved gangster titles, to a bold religious trilogy, to popcorn thrillers, to dark character portraits. Following the release of the filmmaker's latest project, 'Killers of the Flower Moon', The Hollywood Reporter has ranked the Oscar-winning director's top films.
00:00Martin Scorsese's 27 narrative feature films range from beloved gangster titles to a bold religious trilogy to popcorn thrillers to dark character portraits.
00:10Following the release of the filmmaker's latest project, Killers of the Flower Moon, The Hollywood Reporter has ranked the Oscar-winning director's top films.
00:18Coming in at number five is 1995's Casino.
00:21The dynamic gangster flick stars Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, and Sharon Stone in what THR's James Hibbard calls the arguably best performance of her career.
00:30It's based on a true story that's chronicled in the book Casino Love and Honor in Las Vegas.
00:38What a move. I fell in love right there. But in Vegas, for a girl like Ginger, love costs money.
00:45Number four is 2013's The Wolf of Wall Street.
00:48Leonardo DiCaprio stars in Scorsese's highest-grossing film, based on a loose adaptation of the 1990s rise and fall of stockbroker king Jordan Belfort.
00:57According to Hibbard, it's a testament to Scorsese's talent that he manages to make the film so much fun while squeezing DiCaprio for his wildest performance.
01:06I want you to deal with your problems by becoming rich!
01:101980's Raging Bull ranks third.
01:12Modestly received upon release and considered powerful yet sometimes difficult to watch, Raging Bull went on to be considered one of the best films of all time and won De Niro an Oscar for Best Actor for his portrayal of boxing champ Jake LaMotta.
01:25You're very smart, Joey. You're giving me all these answers, but you ain't giving me the right answer.
01:33Number two is the 2006 film The Departed, which sees DiCaprio and Matt Damon play dueling cops both living a double life.
01:40One working undercover in the criminal underworld, the other secretly working for the mob.
01:45The film marries Scorsese's best-known narrative style, which can often feel like loose, stream-of-consciousness storytelling with a suspenseful and tightly structured plot.
01:54For The Departed, Scorsese finally won the Oscar for Best Director, and the film won Best Picture.
01:59You signed the papers, remember? Now, we're the only two people on the face of this earth that even know you're a cop.
02:05How about we just erase your file? Huh? How about that? How about we erase your file?
02:09And coming in at number one is 1990's Goodfellas.
02:12All the director's crime drama tropes are here, but it's in Goodfellas that Scorsese made all his familiar components into a symphonic crime masterpiece.
02:20And you, you gotta take it easy. You got children. I'm not saying you gotta go back to this minute, but you gotta go back. I mean, it's the only way.
02:29For the full top ten list of Scorsese's best films ranked, head to THR.com. This is The Hollywood Reporter News.
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