
Martin Scorsese is one of the true cinematic greats, having directed some of the best films ever made across seven decades.
Starting with 1967’s Who’s That Knocking at My Door, the diminutive New Yorker has released 25 feature films. He’s all set to launch a 26th in Killers of the Flower Moon, via Apple TV+ and Paramount Pictures.
Based on the 2017 non-fiction book Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, it relates the grizzly story of a series of murders that took place in 1920s Oklahoma after oil is discovered on native American land.
As you’d expect of Scorsese, it’s packed full to the rafters with star names. Leonardo DiCaprio, Jesse Plemons, Lily Gladstone, Brendan Fraser, John Lithgow — and, of course, Robert De Niro — all feature.
Also typical of a Scorsese joint, it’s damned long, with a running time that approaches the 3 hours and 30 minutes mark. Look, Marty, if you’re going to insist that we watch your movies in a cinema, stop busting our bladders, capisce?
Ahead of the film’s world premiere at Cannes on May 20, we thought now would be the ideal time to highlight the best of Scorsese. Here are the great man’s 10 best films. It’s up to you to vote for the very best.
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Best Martin Scorsese movies
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Jon Mundy is a freelance writer with more than a dozen years of experience writing for leading tech websites such as TechRadar and Trusted Reviews.