Martin Scorsese

1h 52m

The blueprint. De Niro and Keitel, Little Italy, and everything he would refine later.

1h 54m

Travis Bickle, and the Palme d'Or. Still deeply unpleasant in the right way.

2h 9m

Jake LaMotta in black and white. Frequently named the best American film of its decade.

1h 49m

A flop that became the template for a whole strain of modern film, Joker included.

2h 26m

Thirty years of the mob at speed. The entry point, and arguably the peak.

2h 58m

Goodfellas in Las Vegas, longer and colder.

2h 50m

Howard Hughes, and the start of the DiCaprio partnership proper.

2h 31m

Finally won him Best Director, for the most purely entertaining thing he had made in years.

2h 18m

A gothic thriller that plays much better on a second viewing.

3h 0m

Three hours of excess that half the audience mistook for endorsement.

2h 41m

Thirty years in development, and the most explicitly religious film he has made.

3h 29m

Three and a half hours, and an elegy for every gangster film he ever made.

3h 26m

The Osage murders, told from the side of the perpetrators. Ferocious late work.