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  • Martin Scorsese responds to production company's lawsuit - 25 August 2012
    -Martin Scorsese is shocked by a lawsuit filed over an alleged stalled film project, insisting he's always had an "amicable" working relationship with the production company suing him.-Bosses at Cecchi Gori Pictures filed suit against the director last week (beg20Aug12)


  • Martin Scorsese sued over stalled movie project - 23 August 2012
    -Director Martin Scorsese has been hit with a lawsuit over allegations he has stalled a film project for over 20 years.-Bosses at Cecchi Gori Pictures filed suit in Los Angeles Superior Court on Wednesday (22Aug12) over claims the legendary filmmaker entered into an agre


  • Robert De Niro recommended DiCaprio to Scorsese - 14 June 2012
    -Martin Scorsese made sure to check out the talents of a young Leonardo DiCaprio on the advice of his old pal Robert De Niro - because the veteran actor "rarely" recommends people to the filmmaker.-De Niro handpicked a then 18-year-old DiCaprio to play the lead role in 1

Martin Scorsese - what members say


  • Raging Bull
  • Raging Bull review by from London
    Rated - 5.0 stars This is as good as it gets 7 May 2004
    ...Martin Scorsese's searing masterwork Raging Bull is not just a film about a boxer. It's a film about obsessive jealousy, a film about the self destructive nature of masculinit...   Read customer review
  • Goodfellas
  • Goodfellas review by JediSi from Kent
    Rated - 4.0 stars Go home and get your shine box. 17 November 2007
    ... gives in most of his gangster friends – good fellows! The movie is directed by Martin Scorsese, who like Tarantino has earned his reputation with cold blooded killing of peop...   Read customer review
  • Taxi Driver
  • Taxi Driver review by from Castleford,England
    Rated - 4.0 stars Great film! 7 July 2005
    ... Harvey Keitel and Meryl Streep they make this film a classic.It is also one of Martin Scorsese's best pieces of work and he gets a cameo role in the film too.It does seem a l...   Read customer review

Martin Scorsese - filmography


  • Hugo - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Ben Kingsley,  Ray Winstone,  Sacha Baron Cohen
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Martin Scorsese makes his first foray into children's cinema with this semi-fantastical drama based on a book by Brian Selznick. Asa Butterfield stars as Hugo, an orphan who lives in the hidden nooks of a train station in 1920s Paris. With the help of his friend, Isabelle (Chloë Moretz), he sets ..read more »
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  • Corman's World on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Quentin Tarantino,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Alex Stapleton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Documentary on the life of legendary B-movie director Roger Corman. Over the course of a career spanning over six decades, Corman has directed and produced numerous films and has developed a reputation as one of the most respected figures in Hollywood. Corman's influence on the last half century of ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 191 members
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  • Shutter Island on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Mark Ruffalo,  Ben Kingsley
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Drama is set in 1954, U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels is investigating the disappearance of a murderess who escaped from a hospital for the criminally insane and is presumed to be hiding on the remote Shutter Island.
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  • Jack Cardiff - Cameraman on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jack Cardiff,  John Mills,  Thelma Schoonmaker
    Director: Craig McCall
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Craig McCall directs this documentary tribute to cinematographer Jack Cardiff, who died in April 2009. After working as a cameraman for Hitchcock and for Powell and Pressburger in the 1940s, Cardiff was asked by director Michael Powell to oversee the cinematography for the 1946 film 'A Matter of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 186 members
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  • A Letter to Elia (2010)
    Starring: Martin Scorsese,  Elia Kazan
    Director: Kent Jones,  Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: TBC
    Director Martin Scorsese speaks candidly and passionately about one of his formative filmmaking influences: the late Elia Kazan. Utilizing precisely chosen clips from Kazan's signature films including "On the Waterfront," "A Streetcar Named Desire," "Gentleman's Agreement," "Baby Doll," "A Tree ..read more »
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  • Boardwalk Empire - Series 1 (5 discs) on DVD (2009)
    Starring: Steve Buscemi,  Michael Pitt,  Kelly MacDonald
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    From Terence Winter (Emmy®-winning writer on HBO's The Sopranos) and Oscar®-winning director Martin Scorsese, Boardwalk Empire is set in Atlantic City in 1920 at the dawn of Prohibition. The series chronicles the life and times of Enoch Nucky Thompson (Steve Buscemi), the city treasurer whose ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 80% from 6,540 members
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  • The Departed on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Leonardo Di Caprio,  Martin Sheen,  Ray Winstone
    Director: Martin Scorsese,  Martin Scors
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In South Boston, where the state police force is waging war on organized crime, young undercover cop Billy Costigan is assigned to infiltrate the mob syndicate run by gangland chief Costello. While Billy is quickly gaining Costello's confidence, Colin Sullivan, a hardened young criminal who has ..read more »
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  • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Bob Dylan
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    The first documentary about the groundbreaking songwriter to be made with his full co-operation. Martin Scorsese directs this biography of one of the most important figures in the history of popular music, covering his arrival in New York in the early 1960s and his dominance of the counter-cultural ..read more »
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  • The Aviator on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Cate Blanchett,  Kate Beckinsale
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
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    Fast-paced biopic documenting the life of one of the most colourful Americans of the 20th century, Howard Hughes. Leonardo DiCaprio plays Hughes, the son of a Texan inventor who dies and leaves him with a small fortune. Hughes moves to Los Angeles to become a Hollywood film producer and produces ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 79,030 members
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  • Feel Like Going Home on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Othar Turner,  Corey Harris,  Johnny Shines
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Martin Scorsese traces the origins of the blues using a combination of original performances and rare footage. His journey takes him from the banks of the Niger River in Mali to the cotton fields and juke joints of the Mississippi Delta.
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 283 members
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  • Gangs Of New York on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Liam Neeson,  John C. Reilly,  Brendan Gleeson
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    In 1860's lower Manhattan, the Five Points section is a dark, teeming corner of the city known for vice and chaos. Into this frontier of lawlessness arrives the young Irish American, Amsterdam Vallon. Amsterdam is the orphaned son of the slain Priest Vallon--once chief warrior of the Dead Rabbits ..read more »
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  • Concert For New York City (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: Eric Clapton,  Harrison Ford,  Billy Crystal
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A concert held to raise money and indeed morale in the light of the bombing of the World Trade Center, September 11th, 2001.Madison Square Garden plays host to a galaxy of stars from stage, screen and recording studio including: Elton John, Billy Crystal, Woody Allen, James Taylor, Bon Jovi, Kevin ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 350 members
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  • Bringing Out the Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Marc Anthony,  Cliff Curtis,  Patricia Arquette
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Nicolas Cage plays EMS paramedic Frank Pierce. It is the early 1990's and New York has not yet undergone its renaissance of recent years. Surrounded by the injured and the dying, Frank is dwelling in an urban night-world, crumbling under the accumulated weight of too many years of saving and losing ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,424 members
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  • My Voyage to Italy on DVD (1999)
    Starring: Martin Scorsese
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    This survey of Italian cinema by Martin Scorsese is a follow-up to his 1995 documentary A Personal Journey Through American Movies. Packed with insight and film clips, Voyage covers Italian cinema from World War II through the early 1960s, the time that the young Scorsese watched these films before ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 128 members
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  • Kundun on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Martin Scorsese directs this epic based on the life of the present day Dalai Lama. In 1937 a monk roaming in Tibet proclaims that the two-year-old son of a rural family near the Chinese border is 'Kundun' - the reincarnation of the Buddha of Compassion, and next in line as Dalai Lama. The new Lama ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,573 members
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  • Casino on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Jayne Meadows,  Jerry Vale,  Steve Allen
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The inner-workings of a corrupt Las Vegas casino are exposed in Martin Scorsese's story of crime and punishment. The film chronicles the lives and times of three characters: Ace Rothstein (Robert De Niro), a bookmaking wizard; Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci), a Mafia underboss and longtime best friend to ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 39,971 members
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  • A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese ... on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    A guide to the significant moments of movie history over the past 100 years, as seen through the lens of film buff director Martin Scorsese. Moving from silent classics, through Hollywood's Golden Age, and up to the present day, Scorsese explores the way various genres have developed and pays ..read more »
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  • Casino - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Don Rickles,  Sharon Stone,  Dick Smothers
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Martin Scorsese casts Robert De Niro as Sam 'Ace' Rothstein, the mob's frontman for a billion dollar Las Vegas casino. The story begins in 1973; Ace falls for hooker Ginger McKenna (Sharon Stone), while boyhood companion Nicky Santoro (Joe Pesci) is appointed as his muscle at the club. ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 3,581 members
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  • The Age of Innocence on DVD (1993)
    Starring: Alec McC,  Winona Ryder,  Michael Gough
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Martin Scorsese's adaptation of Edith Wharton's scathing account of the tribal customs of the 19th century New York elite. Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is betrothed to the demure May Welland (Winona Ryder), a sensible girl who befits his respectable social position. But when May's cousin, the ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 5,684 members
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  • Mad Dog And Glory on DVD (1992)
    Starring: Uma Thurman,  Bill Murray,  David Caruso
    Director: John McNaughton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Mad Dog (Robert De Niro) is a mild-mannered forensic policeman who finally pulls his gun and intervenes during a hold-up, saving the life of local hoodlum and stand-up comic Frank Milo (Bill Murray). In gratitude Milo loans his protector a beautiful waitress by the name of Glory (Uma Thurman) for ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 59% from 1,751 member
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  • Cape Fear - Blu-ray (1991)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte,  Jessica Lange
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of the classic 1961 thriller. Tattooed psychopath Max Cady (Robert De Niro) has spent his 14-year prison term fermenting his bitterness towards attorney Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte), whom he blames for his incarceration. Upon his release Cady sets out to destroy the already ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 72% from 249 members
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  • Cape Fear on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Illeana Dou,  Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear provided the director with a box-office success to follow up the critical success of the previous year's Goodfellas. After serving a lengthy prison sentence for a sexual assault, Max Cady (Robert De Niro) comes calling on the man who served as his public ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 18,475 members
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  • Goodfellas on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy, the true-life account of mobster and FBI informant Henry Hill. Set to a true-to-period rock soundtrack, the story details the rise and fall of Hill, a half-Irish, half-..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 75,540 members
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  • Goodfellas - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Frank Vincent,  Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Martin Scorsese's violent true-life gangster epic which follows Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises through the ranks of the Mafia. Upon turning FBI informant to help pay for his drug addiction, Hill recalls how he got started in the Mob following the $6 million robbery of a Lufthansa cargo at a ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 5,079 members
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  • Guilty By Suspicion on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Martin Scorsese,  Patricia Wettig,  Sam Wanamaker
    Director: Irwin Winkler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Director David Merrill (Robert De Niro) is hot property in Hollywood until the McCarthy hearings begin and he refuses to co-operate with the 'House of Un-American Activities Committee'. He finds himself blacklisted, as a paranoid Hollywood refuses to employ him and shuns him, both socially and ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 717 members
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  • The Grifters on DVD (1990)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Anjelica Huston,  Annette Bening
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Stephen Frears' tense adaptation of Jim Thompson's novel The Grifters was one of a number of revival film noirs in the first half of the '90s. Updating the setting to contemporary Los Angeles, the film follows a trio of con artists who are intent on out-foxing each other. Roy Dillon (John ..read more »
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  • The Grifters - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: John Cusack,  Anjelica Huston,  Annette Bening
    Director: Stephen Frears
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    When con-artist Roy Dillon (John Cusack) is reunited with his estranged con-artist mother Lily (Anjelica Huston), he finds himself caught in the middle of the savage feud which develops between her and his girlfriend Myra (Annette Bening), also a con-artist. Myra is trying to draw Roy into a game ..read more »
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  • The Color of Money on DVD (1986)
    Starring: John Turturro,  Paul Newman,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Oscar-nominated in 1961 for his performance as pool hustler Fast Eddie Felson in The Hustler, Paul Newman won that award a quarter century later when he reprised the role in The Color of Money. At the end of The Hustler, Felson was banned for life from playing the game professionally. In the ..read more »
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  • Anna Pavlova on DVD (1983)
    Starring: Galina Beliaeva,  James Fox,  Roy Kinnear
    Director: Emil Loteanu
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    This films charts the extraordinary life of the sickly little girl from a Russian village who becomes the world's most famous ballerina. Based on the real life story of the ballerina Anna Pavlova. It features incredible locations and an epic story.
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  • The King Of Comedy on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Jerry Lewis,  Diahnne Abbott,  Tony Randall
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Robert De Niro plays a nerd with a mission, a fantasist who is determined to get himself on television, namely the Jerry Langford Show. But when Langford (Jerry Lewis) gives him the cold shoulder, De Niro hatches a banal kidnap plan.
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  • Raging Bull on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Frank Adonis,  Nicholas Colasanto,  Cathy Moriarty
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic of Jake La Motta, the boxing world champion who rose rapidly to fame but swiftly fell from grace. On the road to success, La Motta (Robert De Niro) marries the beautiful young Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), but the pressures of success soon make him paranoid and he ends ..read more »
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  • Raging Bull - Blu-ray (1980)
    Starring: Frank Adonis,  Nicholas Colasanto,  Cathy Moriarty
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's acclaimed biopic of Jake La Motta, the boxing world champion who rose rapidly to fame but swiftly fell from grace. On the road to success, La Motta (Robert De Niro) marries the beautiful young Vickie (Cathy Moriarty), but the pressures of success soon make him paranoid and he ends ..read more »
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  • The Last Waltz on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Eric Clapton,  Van Morrison,  Neil Diamond
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Martin Scorsese's 1978 documentary chronicling the farewell concert by The Band, featuring guest appearances from, among others, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Neil Diamond and Joni Mitchell. The performance took place at San Francisco's Winterland Ballroom on Thanksgiving Day, 1976, and marked the end of ..read more »
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  • New York, New York on DVD (1977)
    Starring: Liza Minnelli,  Mary Kay Place,  Lionel Stander
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Martin Scorsese combined the splashy atmosphere of the old studio musical with an unromanticized marriage story in his valentine to Hollywood and the Big Band era. On V-J Day 1945, newly minted civilian saxophonist Jimmy Doyle (Robert De Niro) meets USO singer Francine Evans (Liza Minnelli) at a ..read more »
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  • Cannonball (1976)
    Starring: Robert Carradine,  Martin Scorsese,  Veronica Hamel
    Director: Paul Bartel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    An illegal auto race from Los Angeles to New York is taking place that promises the winner $100,000. Coy 'Cannonball' Buckman (David Carradine), the race leader, drags his girlfriend Linda (Veronica Hamel) along for the ride. But Cannonball's nemesis Terry McMillan (Carl Gottlieb) barrels along in ..read more »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 294 members
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  • Taxi Driver - Blu-ray (1976)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Harvey Keitel,  Leonard Harris
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader. Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a New York City taxi driver, and is consumed with disgust by the 'filth' which surrounds him. His explosive, psychotic loathing eventually drives ..read more »
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  • Taxi Driver on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Cybill Shepherd,  Harvey Keitel,  Leonard Harris
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Groundbreaking drama of urban alienation from director Martin Scorsese and writer Paul Schrader. Vietnam veteran Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) works as a New York City taxi driver, and is consumed with disgust by the 'filth' which surrounds him. His explosive, psychotic loathing eventually drives ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 55,583 members
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  • Mean Streets on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Cesare Danova,  Jeanne Bell,  Harvey Keitel
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    You don't make up for your sins in church; you do it in the streets; you do it at home. The rest is bulls--t, and you know it. Returning to the autobiographical milieu of his 1968 debut Who's That Knocking at My Door? for his third feature, Martin Scorsese examined the daily struggles of a wannabe ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 67% from 13,386 members
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  • Boxcar Bertha on DVD (1972)
    Starring: John Carradine,  Bernie Casey,  Barbara Hershey
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Produced by Roger Corman and directed by Martin Scorsese, Boxcar Bertha is a Bonnie and Clyde-like yarn set during the Depression. The title character, played by Barbara Hershey, links up with union organizer David Carradine (Hershey's real-life lover at the time) after the death of her father. ..read more »
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Martin Scorsese facts

5 most recent films

John Ford - Dreaming the Quiet Man - 3.0 stars
Hugo - Blu-ray - 3.5 stars
I Heard You Paint Houses - 3.5 stars
Corman's World - 3.5 stars
George Harrison - Living in the Material World - 4.0 stars

5 highest-rated films

Goodfellas - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Boardwalk Empire - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Goodfellas - 4.0 stars
The Departed - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Boardwalk Empire - Series 1 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

The Last Temptation Of Christ - Blu-ray - 3 stars
In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese - 2.0 stars
Anna Pavlova - 2.5 stars
Pavlova - A Woman For All Time - 2.5 stars
John Ford - Dreaming the Quiet Man - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert De Niro - 26 times - show films
Leonardo DiCaprio - 15 times - show films
Francis Ford Coppola - 13 times - show films
Arthur Penn - 12 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 12 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Henry Wilson - 19 times - show films
Martin Scors - 5 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 5 times - show films
Scott Hicks - 4 times - show films
Kent Jones - 2 times - show films