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  • Martin Scorsese shows off comedy skills on Saturday Night Live - 6 May 2012
    -Legendary director Martin Scorsese made a surprise appearance on U.S. sketch show Saturday Night Live, starring as the tortured captive of funnyman Sacha Baron Cohen's comedy alter ego Admiral General Aladeen.-The stars were unannounced guests on this weekend's (05May12


  • Scorsese in talks to develop Sinatra biopic - 9 April 2012
    -Director Martin Scorsese has set his sights on shooting a Frank Sinatra biopic, revealing he has already met with writers to develop the project.-The Goodfellas filmmaker is hoping to bring the Rat Pack star's life story to the big screen but Scorsese reveals he's strug


  • Scorsese bemused by Raging Bull sequel - 9 April 2012
    -Filmmaker Martin Scorsese is baffled by plans to make a sequel to Raging Bull and insists moviegoers have "moved on".-Argentinian director Martin Guigui has started production on a follow-up to Scorsese's classic 1980 biopic, which starred Robert De Niro as professional

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
  • Casino
  • Casino review by SAI81 from Tonbridge, Kent
    Rated - 5.0 stars Casino 13 August 2005
    ...Martin Scorsese has made plenty of good films in the last decade but Casino is his last (to date) truly great film. Often underrated as it is made to live in the shadow of Goo...   Read customer review

Martin Scorsese - filmography


  • Hugo - Blu-ray (2011)
    Starring: Chloe Moretz,  Ben Kingsley,  Sacha Baron Cohen
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    A young orphan living in a Paris train station uncovers a mystery that jeopardizes his secretive way of life in this Martin Scorsese-directed adaptation of Brian Selznick's stunning children's book. THE AVIATOR's John Logan provides the screenplay for the lavish production, which stars Ben Kingsley,..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,593 members
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  • Corman's World on DVD (2011)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Quentin Tarantino,  Jack Nicholson
    Director: Alex Stapleton
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    The director of more than fifty films and the producer of over 300, prolific B-movie maven Roger Corman is profiled in this biographical documentary from filmmaker Alex Stapleton. From Little Shop of Horrors to Rock and Roll High School, this film explores a wide variety of films from Corman's ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 61 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.
    3.5 stars out of 5 74% from 73,845 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 »
    3 stars out of 5 60% from 1 member
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  • Jack Cardiff - Cameraman on DVD (2010)
    Starring: Jack Cardiff,  John Mills,  Thelma Schoonmaker
    Director: Craig McCall
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Jack Cardiff was lauded by the Hollywood greats he photographed films for - John Huston, Sophia Loren, Alfred Hitchcock, Marilyn Monroe - and described by Michael Powell as "A genius, a daydreamer, a baby. He should have been a painter instead of being the best colour cameraman in the world." Yet ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 76% from 159 members
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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 3,799 members
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  • Glass - A Portrait of Philip in Twelve Parts on DVD (2007)
    Starring: Philip Glass,  Woody Allen,  Martin Scorsese
    Director: Scott Hicks
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
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    In July 2005, filmmaker Scott Hicks started shooting a documentary about the composer Philip Glass to celebrate his 70th anniversary in 2007. Over the next 18 months, Scott followed Philip across three continents - from his annual ride on the Coney Island "Cyclone" roller coaster, to the world ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 117 members
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  • The Departed on DVD (2006)
    Starring: Jack Nicholson,  Matt Damon,  Leonardo DiCaprio
    Director: Martin Scorsese,  Martin Scors
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Director Martin Scorsese returns to his trademark style with the violent, bruised, and bloody feature THE DEPARTED. Scorsese filched the basic storyline from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak's masterful 2002 Hong Kong action film, INFERNAL AFFAIRS, which saw a policeman going undercover as a mob ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 77% from 106,386 members
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  • No Direction Home: Bob Dylan (2 discs) on DVD (2005)
    Starring: Bob Dylan
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Spawning both politically charged folk ballads that came to embody the very spirit of the turbulent 1960s ('The Times They are a-Changin') and sprawling, stream-of-consciousness litanies that irrevocably changed the face of rock music ('Like a Rolling Stone'), the years between 1961-1966 were ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 3,053 members
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  • The Aviator on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Cate Blanchett,  Kate Beckinsale
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Martin Scorsese's THE AVIATOR is a lavish spectacle of a motion picture that harks back to Hollywood's Golden Era in telling the story of Howard Hughes, one of 20th-century America's most pioneering and influential figures. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio as the eccentric billionaire, Scorsese's biopic ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 61% from 76,909 members
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  • Feel Like Going Home on DVD (2004)
    Starring: Salif Keita,  Taj Mahal,  Othar Turner
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    Produced by Martin Scorsese and helmed by seven major film directors (including Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, and Charles Burnett), this seven-part collection traces the history of the blues. Beginning by discovering the earliest recorded works of the blues from the 1920s, and ending with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 71% from 270 members
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  • Gangs Of New York on DVD (2002)
    Starring: Leonardo DiCaprio,  Daniel Day-Lewis,  Cameron Diaz
    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 »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 44,370 members
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  • Concert For New York City (2 discs) on DVD (2001)
    Starring: David Bowie,  Billy Crystal,  Bon Jovi
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Performed at New York's Madison Square Garden on October 20, 2001, this historic concert was performed to benefit the victims and heroes of the horrendous terrorist attacks of September 11th. An inspiring and uplifting tribute to a great city and its resilient inhabitants, THE CONCERT FOR NEW YORK ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 336 members
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  • Bringing Out the Dead on DVD (1999)
    Starring: John Goodman,  Ving Rhames,  Tom Sizemore
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Martin Scorsese exhilaratingly adapts Joe Connelly's novel about Frank (Nicolas Cage), a paramedic working among the filth and mental desolation of New York City's Hell's Kitchen in the early 1990s. Lately he has been haunted by the visions of a beautiful 18-year-old girl whom he was unable to ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 58% from 5,222 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 71% from 96 members
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  • Kundun on DVD (1997)
    Starring: Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    Martin Scorsese's telling of the life story of the 14th Dalai Lama is a spiritual and deeply moving event. Barely able to walk, the young Tenzin Gyatso (played respectively by Tulku Jamyang Kung Tenzin, Gyurme Tethong, and Tenzin Thuthob Tsarong) is identified as the newly reincarnated form of His ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 2,457 members
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  • Casino - HD (1995)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Robert De Niro,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and revelling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 524 members
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  • A Personal Journey With Martin Scorsese ... on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: Ex
    Master auteur Martin Scorsese writes, directs, and hosts this compendium of the greatest works of American cinema, charting the medium's course from nickelodeon reels to digital imaging. The multipart series includes an exhaustive range of clips (supervised by longtime Scorsese editor Thelma ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 74% from 766 members
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  • Casino - Blu-ray (1995)
    Starring: Sharon Stone,  Robert De Niro,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese, one of America's most influential filmmakers, returns to the world of mobsters, greed, and excess that he explored so compellingly in 1990's GOODFELLAS. Set in the 1970s and revelling in the minute details of how Las Vegas casinos operate, the film chronicles the rise and fall of ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 79% from 3,376 members
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  • Casino on DVD (1995)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Sharon Stone,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    The story of a Jewish front man for the Las Vegas Mob and his wife who jinxes the operation. Based on the real-life story of Frank 'Lefty' Rosenthal and Tony 'The Ant' Spilotro.
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 38,970 members
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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 J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 121 members
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  • Cape Fear on DVD (1991)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Nick Nolte,  Jessica Lange
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Martin Scorsese's remake of J. Lee Thompson's 1962 film is a stylish, taut thriller. Public defender Sam Bowden (Nick Nolte) served as the attorney for brutal rapist Max Cady (Robert De Niro) at his arraignment. Shocked by the violence of Cady's crime, Sam duplicitously withheld information ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 70% from 17,939 members
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  • Goodfellas - HD (1990)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 85% from 1,061 member
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  • Goodfellas on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    Watch now: Unavailable
    Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book "Wiseguy", Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners. As a poor Irish-Italian growing up ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 81% from 73,490 members
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  • Guilty By Suspicion on DVD (1990)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Annette Bening,  George Wendt
    Director: Irwin Winkler
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Hollywood, 1950. When David Merrill (Robert De Niro), one of Hollywood's top directors, returns from a recuperative European hiatus, he finds himself in a tinsel town he no longer recognizes. His friends are ill at ease, good folks won't talk openly anymore and the House Un-American Activities ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 62% from 684 members
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  • Goodfellas - Blu-ray (1990)
    Starring: Frank Vincent,  Robert De Niro,  Ray Liotta
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Based on Nicholas Pileggi's book 'Wiseguy', Martin Scorsese's GOODFELLAS is a wry, violent, and exhilarating film about the life of Henry Hill, an aspiring criminal who ends up in the FBI's witness protection program after testifying against his former partners.As a poor Irish-Italian growing up in ..read more »
    4.5 stars out of 5 87% from 4,593 members
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  • The Color of Money on DVD (1986)
    Starring: Paul Newman,  Tom Cruise,  Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
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    Martin Scorsese's THE COLOR OF MONEY picks up where Robert Rossen's 1961 film THE HUSTLER left off. Fast Eddie Felson (Paul Newman), now middle-aged, finds the image of his youthful self in a pool hustler named Vincent Lauria (Tom Cruise). Trying to relive his past days of glory through the cocky ..read more »
    3 stars out of 5 64% from 7,290 members
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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.
    2.5 stars out of 5 49% from 27 members
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  • The King Of Comedy on DVD (1982)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Jerry Lewis,  Diahnne Abbott
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: PG
    Martin Scorsese's THE KING OF COMEDY is a brutally funny depiction of the dangers of celebrity fandom. Robert De Niro plays the ridiculously inept Rupert Pupkin, an aspiring comic who idolises talk-show host Jerry Langford (Jerry Lewis). Still living at home with his mother, Rupert spends his days ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 69% from 7,752 members
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  • Raging Bull on DVD (1980)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Cathy Moriarty,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    With RAGING BULL, Martin Scorsese's personal approach to filmmaking is taken to a whole new level. Shooting in a crisp black and white, Scorsese tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, played with incredible intensity by Robert De Niro, in an Oscar-winning performance. As La Motta ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 34,150 members
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  • Raging Bull - Blu-ray (1980)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Cathy Moriarty,  Joe Pesci
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    With RAGING BULL, Martin Scorsese's personal approach to filmmaking is taken to a whole new level. Shooting in a crisp black and white, Scorsese tells the story of middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, played with incredible intensity by Robert De Niro, in an Oscar-winning performance. As La Motta ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 75% from 2,239 members
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  • The Last Waltz on DVD (1978)
    Starring: Eric Clapton,  Neil Diamond,  Bob Dylan
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: U
    In what just might be the finest rock & roll concert film ever, THE LAST WALTZ celebrates the final performance by the Band (Robbie Robertson, Rick Danko, Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, and Garth Hudson). The show took place on Thanksgiving Day in 1976, at San Francisco's Winterland Arena--where the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 68% from 2,208 members
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  • Taxi Driver on DVD (1976)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Jodie Foster,  Albert Brooks
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 73% from 53,819 members
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  • Cannonball on DVD (1976)
    Starring: David Carradine,  Bill McKinney,  Veronica Hamel
    Director: Paul Bartel
    Certificate: Certificate: 12
    High energy action film about an illegal and lengthy marathon road race, the Trans-American Grand Prix, where the goal is to make it to the finish without being arrested or incinerated.There are no rules or judges, just a $100,000 prize. Look for cameos from Scorcese and Stallone.
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 280 members
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  • Taxi Driver - Blu-ray (1976)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Jodie Foster,  Albert Brooks
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
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    Martin Scorsese's intense film, a hallmark of 1970s filmmaking, graphically depicts the tragic consequences of urban alienation when a New York City taxi driver goes on a murderous rampage against the pitiable denizens inhabiting the city's underbelly. For psychotic, pistol-packing Vietnam vet ..read more »
    4 stars out of 5 78% from 909 members
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  • Mean Streets on DVD (1973)
    Starring: Robert De Niro,  Harvey Keitel,  David Proval
    Director: Martin Scorsese
    Certificate: Certificate: 18
    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 12,741 members
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  • Boxcar Bertha on DVD (1972)
    Starring: Barbara Hershey,  David Carradine,  John Carradine
    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 »
    2.5 stars out of 5 52% from 675 members
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  • Martin Scorsese Presents The Blues: Red,...
    Starring: Martin Scorsese
    Director: Mike Figgis
    Certificate: Certificate: 15
    Produced by Martin Scorsese and helmed by seven major film directors (including Clint Eastwood, Wim Wenders, and Charles Burnett), this seven-part collection traces the history of the blues. Beginning by discovering the earliest recorded works of the blues from the 1920s, and ending with the ..read more »
    3.5 stars out of 5 66% from 411 members
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Martin Scorsese facts

5 most recent films

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

5 highest-rated films

Goodfellas - Blu-ray - 4.5 stars
Goodfellas - HD - 4.5 stars
Boardwalk Empire - Series 1 - Blu-ray - 4.0 stars
Goodfellas - 4.0 stars
Boardwalk Empire - Series 1 - 4.0 stars

5 lowest-rated films

In Search of Kundun with Martin Scorsese - 3 stars
Ultimate 80s Collection - Vol. 2 - 2.0 stars
Anna Pavlova - 2.5 stars
A Letter to Elia - 3.0 stars
I Heard You Paint Houses - 3.0 stars

Most frequent co-stars

Robert De Niro - 26 times - show films
Francis Ford Coppola - 13 times - show films
Arthur Penn - 12 times - show films
Billy Wilder - 12 times - show films
Joe Pesci - 12 times - show films

Most frequent directors

Michael Henry Wilson - 19 times - show films
Steven Spielberg - 5 times - show films
Scott Hicks - 4 times - show films
Martin Scors - 3 times - show films
Kent Jones - 2 times - show films