Movies directed by Martin Scorsese

Taxi Driver (1976)

113 mins     Drama, Thriller      

It's March 28th 1977 and Martin Scorsese's "Taxi Driver" is nominated for 4 Oscars, but somehow this magnificent movie left empty handed beaten to the Best Picture Award by "Rocky". It's a moment in history which many fans of...

Raging Bull (1980)

129 mins     Biography, Drama, Sport      

There are some who rate "Raging Bull" as the greatest boxing movie of all time which to be honest is a little misleading. It's misleading because "Raging Bull" is a very different sort of boxing movie, it may have some great ...

The King of Comedy (1983)

109 mins     Comedy, Drama      

If you look at director Martin Scorsese's movies in the later half of the 70s they were all big movies which had a lot of depth and style, maybe too much depth for the general public who go to the cinema to be entertained rat...

The Color of Money (1986)

119 mins     Drama, Sport      

Released in 1986 "The Color of Money" was the sequel to the impressive 1961 pool movie "The Hustler" which introduced us too hustler Eddie Felson played by Paul Newman. Where as "The Hustler" focused more on the character of ...

Goodfellas (1990)

146 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

There are a lot of gangster movies but only a handful are great and one of those is Martin Scorsese's "Goodfellas". With a cast boasting the talents of Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino i...

Cape Fear (1991)

128 mins     Thriller      

Yes you did read that title right, I said Scorsese screws up and I am on about his remake of "Cape Fear". Now there is no denying that Martin Scorsese is one of the greatest movie makers of his age, he has consistently delive...

Casino (1995)

171 mins     Crime, Drama, Thriller      

In the world of film making, there is no such thing as a dead cert; even the best directors and actors have made some seriously terrible movies. But the closest thing you can get to a sure bet, is the pairing of Robert De Nir...

Gangs of New York (2002)

160 mins     Crime, Drama      

One of the most interesting things about Martin Scorsese's epic "Gangs of New York" is not that it was yet another movie he never won an Oscar for but that he originally tried to make it back in 1978. The fact that nearly a q...

The Aviator (2004)

170 mins     Biography, Drama      

Mention the name Howard Hughes and I would bet most people will say he was an eccentric millionaire who ended up a recluse. And to some degree that is true and is certainly how his life ended, but Martin Scorsese's "The Aviat...

The Departed (2006)

151 mins     Crime, Mystery, Thriller      

With "The Departed" director Martin Scorsese returns to the world of underground crime but instead of solely focusing on the life of a gangster he delivers a clever thriller about double crossing and duplicity. "The Departed"...

Shutter Island (2010)

138 mins     Drama, Mystery, Thriller      

2010 must have been a dream for Leonardo DiCaprio quite literally because not only did he star in "Inception" where he played a man who could go into peoples' dreams he also starred in Martin Scorsese's "Shutter Island" which...

Hugo (2011)

126 mins     Adventure , Drama, Family      

"The film was received with critical acclaim, with many critics praising the visuals, acting, and direction" is a sentence which I found on Wikipedia and sums up "Hugo" quite brilliantly. Now the irony of this is that those w...

The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)

180 mins     Biography, Comedy, Crime      

Martin Scorsese's "The Wolf of Wall Street" is a tale of excess in more ways than one. On one hand it is the story of Jordan Belfort whose life of crime as a dodgy stock broker was full of excess and it is a movie which is fu...