Martin Scorsese's 8 Best Movies, Ranked

Martin Scorsese's top 8 by movie.guru score. Plenty of De Niro, plenty of DiCaprio, and a family movie nobody saw coming.

Number one is the movie your uncle quotes wrong every holiday.

1. 8
   The Aviator (2004)7.7

   Gorgeous planes, great Leo, and miles of extra runway.

   Leonardo DiCaprio plays Howard Hughes for 170 minutes, and Cate Blanchett's Katharine Hepburn steals it. Audiences rank it above just 69% of notable movies.
2. 7
   Hugo (2011)8.0

   Rated PG and still unmistakably Scorsese.

   126 minutes, and critics rank it above 90% of notable movies. A kid living inside the clocks of a Paris train station is Scorsese's coziest idea ever.
3. 6
   The Departed (2006)8.9

   Scorsese's tightest thriller, and Jack Nicholson is barely supervised.

   Cops and mobsters plant moles in each other for 151 minutes, and every phone call feels like a bomb. $292.1 million worldwide.
4. 5
   The Wolf of Wall Street (2013)8.5

   Matthew McConaughey shows up for one lunch and steals it.

   $407 million worldwide on a $100 million budget. Audiences rank it above 99% of notable movies. It's a real fraud with real victims, so laugh carefully.
5. 4
   Raging Bull (1980)9.3

   Joe Pesci's breakout. He matches De Niro punch for punch.

   Made for $18 million, it grossed $23.4 million worldwide. Audiences rank it above 94% of notable movies. The fight scenes are cut like a migraine.
6. 3
   The Irishman (2019)9.3

   Made $968,853 in theaters, and it still ranks third.

   Metacritic gives it a 94, and critics rank it above 97% of notable movies. Netflix bought a masterpiece and put it next to cooking shows.
7. 2
   Taxi Driver (1976)9.4

   Bernard Herrmann's sax score is doing half the acting.

   114 minutes, $28.3 million domestic, and audiences rank it above 99% of notable movies. Not a comfort watch, and it was never trying to be.
8. 1
   Goodfellas (1990)9.6

   Paul Sorvino's Paulie says almost nothing and runs everything.

   Made for $25 million, it grossed just $46.8 million domestic. Audiences rank it above 99% of notable movies. Ray Liotta does the talking. Paulie does the deciding.

$23.59 says you narrate your next grocery run like Ray Liotta and someone in the cereal aisle hears you.

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