Martin Scorsese – All of His Films Ranked

25 – Boxcar Bertha (1972)
Life made her an outcast. Love made her an outlaw.
Crime | Drama | Romance

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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4.91 /10

“Boxcar” Bertha Thompson, a transient woman in Arkansas during the violence-filled Depression of the early ’30s, meets up with rabble-rousing union man “Big” Bill Shelly and the two team up to fight the corrupt railroad establishment.

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Critics response: Mixed Reviews

24 Critic reviews: 13 positive (54.2%); 11 negative (45.8%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

24 – New York, New York (1977)
The war was over and the world was falling in love again.

Music | Drama | Romance

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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6.35 /10

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.

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Critics response: Mixed reviews

46 Critic reviews: 26 positive (56.5%); 20 negative (43.5%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

23 – Who’s That Knocking at My Door (1967)
Mean Streets was just around the corner.

Drama | Romance

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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6.35 /10

A Catholic New Yorker falls in love with a girl and wants to marry her, but he struggles to accept her past and what it means for their future.

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Critics response: Generally Positive

20 Critic reviews: 14 positive (70%); 6 negative (30%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

22 – Bringing Out the Dead (1999)
Saving someone’s life is like falling in love.

Drama

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.02 /10

Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank 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.

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Critics response: Generally Positive

110 Critic reviews: 79 positive (71.8%); 31 negative (28.2%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

21 – The Color of Money (1986)
The Hustler isn’t what he used to be. But he has the next best thing. A kid who is.

Drama

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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Helen Shaver
John Turturro
Bill Cobbs
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7.15 /10

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.

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Critics response: Extremely Positive

47 Critic reviews: 42 positive (89.4%); 5 negative (10.6%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

20 – Kundun (1997)
The destiny of a people lies in the heart of a boy.

Drama | History

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
Tencho Gyalpo
Tsewang Migyur Khangsar
Gyurme Tethong
Robert Lin
Tulku Jamyang Kunga Tenzin
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7.18 /10

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.

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Critics response: Very Positive

61 Critic reviews: 46 positive (75.4%); 15 negative (24.6%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

19 – Silence (2016)
Sometimes silence is the deadliest sound.

Drama | History

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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Liam Neeson

Andrew Garfield

Adam Driver

Yosuke Kubozuka

Tadanobu Asano

Issey Ogata
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7.23 /10

Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.

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Critics response: Very Positive

289 Critic reviews: 239 positive (82.7%); 50 negative (17.3%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

18 – The Age of Innocence (1993)
In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.

Drama | Romance

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.38 /10

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

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Critics response: Very Positive

60 Critic reviews: 51 positive (85%); 9 negative (15%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

17 – Cape Fear (1991)
There is nothing in the dark that isn’t there in the light. Except fear.
Thriller | Crime

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.42 /10

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? Fourteen 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.

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Critics response: Mostly Positive

54 Critic reviews: 40 positive (74.1%); 14 negative (25.9%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

16 – Hugo (2011)
One of the most legendary directors of our time takes you on an extraordinary adventure.
Adventure | Drama | Family

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.43 /10

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.

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Critics response: Universal Praise

233 Critic reviews: 216 positive (92.7%); 17 negative (7.3%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

15 – The Aviator (2004)
The way of the future

Drama

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.59 /10

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.

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Critics response: Extremely positive

227 Critic reviews: 196 positive (86.3%); 31 negative (13.7%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

14 – Gangs of New York (2002)
America was born in the streets.

Drama | History | Crime

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.61 /10

It’s 1863. Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.

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Critics response: Extremely positive

214 Critic reviews: 155 positive (72.4%); 59 negative (27.6%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

13 – Mean Streets (1973)
You don’t make up for your sins in church. You do it in the streets…

Drama | Crime

Directed by: Martin Scorsese

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7.65 /10

A slice of street life in Little Italy among lower echelon Mafiosos, unbalanced punks, and petty criminals. A small-time hood gets in over his head with a vicious loan shark. In an attempt to free himself from the dangers of his debt, he gets help from a friend who is also involved in criminal activities.

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Critics response: Universal Praise 

66 Critic reviews: 63 positive (95.5%); 3 negative (4.5%)

(Source: Rotten Tomatoes)

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