Martin Scorsese, a list by Alex van Nieuwkuyk

7.2

/126787/

70

/2527/

71

/2228/

3.7

/205219/

92

/78/

84

/2265/

96

/11/

4.0

age 18+

A small-time hood must choose from among love, friendship and the chance to rise within the mob.

80

7.3

/29545/

70

/503/

69

/504/

3.8

/53746/

92

/83/

81

/533/

78

/11/

4.0

age 14+

After her husband dies, Alice and her son, Tommy, leave their small New Mexico town for California, where Alice hopes to make a new life for herself as a singer. Money problems force them to settle in Arizona instead, where Alice takes a job as waitress in a small diner.

87

8.2

/1011381/

79

/18913/

81

/13085/

4.1

/2113264/

89

/163/

93

/13431/

94

/23/

4.0

age 17+

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.

65

6.6

/23460/

67

/378/

66

/489/

3.4

/31046/

57

/49/

58

/386/

64

/11/

3.0

An egotistical saxophone player and a young singer meet on V-J Day and embark upon a strained and rocky romance, even as their careers begin a long uphill climb.

87

8.1

/405729/

78

/5821/

79

/4610/

4.2

/521776/

92

/151/

93

/7166/

90

/28/

4.0

age 17+

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.

80

7.8

/130265/

77

/3241/

77

/2497/

4.2

/378355/

89

/73/

90

/1496/

73

/13/

3.0

age 13+

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.

84

7.6

/93920/

75

/2763/

75

/1658/

4.1

/390213/

90

/70/

87

/1215/

89

/9/

4.0

Desperate to escape his mind-numbing routine, uptown Manhattan office worker Paul Hackett ventures downtown for a hookup with a mystery woman.

73

7.0

/99911/

71

/2340/

69

/1452/

3.7

/117478/

87

/46/

74

/1280/

77

/18/

2.5

age 14+

Former pool hustler "Fast Eddie" Felson decides he wants to return to the game by taking a pupil. He meets talented but green Vincent Lauria and proposes a partnership. As they tour pool halls, Eddie teaches Vincent the tricks of scamming, but he eventually grows frustrated with Vincent's showboat antics, leading to an argument and a falling-out. Eddie takes up playing again and soon crosses paths with Vincent as an opponent.

80

7.5

/67217/

72

/1433/

72

/1152/

3.9

/117793/

82

/106/

84

/1766/

80

/18/

4.0

age 16+

Jesus, a humble Judean carpenter beginning to see that he is the son of God, is drawn into revolutionary action against the Roman occupiers by Judas -- despite his protestations that love, not violence, is the path to salvation. The burden of being the savior of mankind torments Jesus throughout his life, leading him to doubt.

64

6.4

/20827/

65

/387/

62

/392/

3.2

/24905/

77

/26/

56

/388/

2.5

Three tales of love, ambition, and neurosis unfold in the city that never sleeps. In "Life Lessons" (Martin Scorsese), a tormented painter channels heartbreak into his art. In "Life Without Zoë" (Francis Ford Coppola), a precocious 12-year-old navigates privilege and loneliness in a Manhattan hotel. And in "Oedipus Wrecks" (Woody Allen), a man’s domineering mother literally becomes a looming presence over New York.

91

8.7

/1371221/

85

/25752/

84

/13899/

4.5

/1908257/

93

/167/

97

/29224/

92

/21/

4.0

age 18+

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

74

7.3

/239584/

73

/5107/

72

/3735/

3.7

/319797/

76

/59/

77

/2728/

73

/9/

3.0

age 17+

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.

79

7.2

/73644/

70

/1374/

69

/1181/

3.8

/134708/

87

/63/

75

/1027/

90

/35/

4.0

age 11+

In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.

83

8.2

/610805/

81

/12408/

79

/6319/

4.2

/662620/

79

/77/

93

/12204/

73

/17/

4.0

age 18+

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

72

7.0

/31879/

69

/526/

67

/472/

3.5

/25260/

76

/62/

78

/660/

74

/26/

3.0

The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.

74

6.9

/80500/

67

/1575/

66

/1170/

3.7

/100793/

74

/116/

70

/1451/

72

/34/

4.0

Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.

76

7.5

/499908/

75

/11508/

73

/7009/

3.7

/431094/

72

/210/

81

/11173/

72

/39/

3.5

age 17+

In early 1860s New York, Irish immigrant Amsterdam Vallon is released from prison and returns to the Five Points, seeking revenge against his father's killer, William Cutting, a powerful anti-immigrant gang leader. He knows that revenge can only be attained by infiltrating Cutting's inner circle. Vallon's journey becomes a fight for personal survival and to find a place for the Irish people.

79

7.5

/403465/

73

/8524/

72

/5660/

3.8

/318729/

86

/227/

79

/7991/

77

/41/

4.0

age 16+

A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.

88

8.5

/1534408/

83

/31310/

81

/15766/

4.3

/1398605/

91

/285/

94

/58086/

85

/39/

4.0

age 17+

To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.

78

8.2

/1612570/

81

/41226/

82

/25243/

4.2

/2940920/

69

/263/

77

/26136/

63

/37/

3.5

age 18+

World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.

80

7.5

/347365/

73

/10618/

72

/7515/

3.5

/434626/

93

/232/

78

/8429/

83

/41/

4.0

age 8+

Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.

80

8.2

/1752135/

81

/59214/

80

/25356/

4.0

/3508357/

79

/283/

83

/9438/

75

/47/

3.5

age 17+

A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.

78

7.2

/131849/

71

/6190/

71

/3211/

4.0

/245779/

83

/288/

70

/1044/

79

/48/

4.0

age 16+

In the 17th century, two Portuguese Jesuit priests travel to Japan in an attempt to locate their mentor, who is rumored to have committed apostasy, and to propagate Catholicism.

83

7.8

/466192/

75

/16627/

75

/7285/

3.9

/864023/

95

/468/

86

/325/

94

/55/

3.5

age 17+

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

83

7.5

/299696/

73

/12219/

74

/3908/

4.0

/1137823/

93

/473/

84

/1570/

89

/63/