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Robert De Niro has 100 titles in the CriticCrunch catalog across a career spanning the 1960s through the 2020s. 7 sit in the Top 1% of all titles we track — including The Godfather Part II.
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Bad Day for the Cut
2017
Thriller · Drama

Deadfall
2012
Crime · Drama

Dead Man Down
2013
Thriller · Action

Rust Creek
2019
Thriller · Drama

A Score to Settle
2019
Action · Crime

Kiss of Death
1995
Crime · Thriller

Convict
2014
Action · Crime

The Gunman
2015
Action · Drama

The Godfather Part II
1974 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Paramount+ · Included

Casino
1995 · Movie · Actor
Top 1%Starz · Included

Raging Bull
1980 · Movie · Actor
Top 2%MGM+ · Included

Limitless
2011 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Prime Video · Included

The Untouchables
1987 · Movie · Actor
Top 3%Paramount+ · Included

A Bronx Tale
1993 · Movie · Actor · Director
Top 3%AMC+ · Included

During the 1980s, a failed stand-up comedian is driven insane and turns to a life of crime and chaos in Gotham City while becoming an infamous psychopathic crime figure.
Dir. Todd Phillips · With Joaquin Phoenix, Robert De Niro, Zazie Beetz

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and Cuba.
Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · With Al Pacino, Robert Duvall, Diane Keaton

Suffering from insomnia, disturbed loner Travis Bickle takes a job as a New York City cabbie, haunting the streets nightly, growing increasingly detached from reality as he dreams of cleaning up the filthy city.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Cybill Shepherd

Obsessive master thief Neil McCauley leads a top-notch crew on various daring heists throughout Los Angeles while determined detective Vincent Hanna pursues him without rest. Each man recognizes and respects the ability and the dedication of the other even though they are aware their cat-and-mouse game may end in violence.
Dir. Michael Mann · With Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Val Kilmer

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Sharon Stone, Joe Pesci

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.
Dir. Sergio Leone · With Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

The life of boxer Jake LaMotta, whose violence and temper that led him to the top in the ring destroyed his life outside of it.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty, Joe Pesci

Three steelworkers enlist in the army and are sent to Vietnam, one leaving behind a rushed marriage, the others a shared love. What they encounter during the war changes their lives forever.
Dir. Michael Cimino · With Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, John Cazale

The life of an unsuccessful writer is transformed by a top-secret 'smart drug' that allows him to use 100% of his brain and become a perfect version of himself. His enhanced abilities soon attract shadowy forces that threaten his new life.
Dir. Neil Burger · With Bradley Cooper, Robert De Niro, Abbie Cornish

Elliot Ness, an ambitious prohibition agent, is determined to take down Al Capone. In order to achieve this goal, he forms a group given the nickname “The Untouchables”.
Dir. Brian De Palma · With Kevin Costner, Sean Connery, Robert De Niro

Low-level bureaucrat Sam Lowry escapes the monotony of his day-to-day life through a recurring daydream of himself as a virtuous hero saving a beautiful damsel. Investigating a case that led to the wrongful arrest and eventual death of an innocent man instead of wanted terrorist Harry Tuttle, he meets the woman from his daydream, and in trying to help her gets caught in a web of mistaken identities, mindless bureaucracy and lies.
Dir. Terry Gilliam · With Jonathan Pryce, Robert De Niro, Katherine Helmond

Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.
Dir. Robert De Niro · With Robert De Niro, Chazz Palminteri, Lillo Brancato

Dr. Malcolm Sayer, a shy research physician, uses an experimental drug to "awaken" the catatonic victims of a rare disease. Leonard is the first patient to receive the controversial treatment. His awakening, filled with awe and enthusiasm, proves a rebirth for Sayer too, as the exuberant patient reveals life's simple but unutterably sweet pleasures to the introverted doctor.
Dir. Penny Marshall · With Robert De Niro, Robin Williams, John Heard

A down-and-out Brooklyn detective is hired to track down a singer on an odyssey that will take him through the desperate streets of Harlem, the smoke-filled jazz clubs of New Orleans, and the swamps of Louisiana and its seedy underworld of voodoo.
Dir. Alan Parker · With Mickey Rourke, Robert De Niro, Lisa Bonet

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Al Pacino, Joe Pesci

Aspiring comic Rupert Pupkin attempts to achieve success in show business by stalking his idol, a late night talk-show host who craves his own privacy.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Jerry Lewis, Diahnne Abbott

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crimes.
Dir. Barry Levinson · With Kevin Bacon, Robert De Niro, Dustin Hoffman

70-year-old widower Ben Whittaker has discovered that retirement isn't all it's cracked up to be. Seizing an opportunity to get back in the game, he becomes a senior intern at an online fashion site, founded and run by Jules Ostin.
Dir. Nancy Meyers · With Robert De Niro, Anne Hathaway, Rene Russo

In a countryside town bordering on a magical land, a young man makes a promise to his beloved that he'll retrieve a fallen star by venturing into the magical realm. His journey takes him into a world beyond his wildest dreams and reveals his true identity.
Dir. Matthew Vaughn · With Charlie Cox, Claire Danes, Michelle Pfeiffer

When a Spanish Jesuit goes into the South American wilderness to build a mission in the hope of converting the Indians of the region, a slave hunter is converted and joins his mission. When Spain sells the colony to Portugal, they are forced to defend all they have built against the Portuguese aggressors.
Dir. Roland Joffé · With Robert De Niro, Jeremy Irons, Ray McAnally

The epic tale of a class struggle in twentieth century Italy, as seen through the eyes of two childhood friends on opposing sides.
Dir. Bernardo Bertolucci · With Robert De Niro, Gérard Depardieu, Dominique Sanda

Jackie Brown is a flight attendant who gets caught in the middle of smuggling cash into the country for her gunrunner boss. When the cops try to use Jackie to get to her boss, she hatches a plan — with help from a bail bondsman — to keep the money for herself.
Dir. Quentin Tarantino · With Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert De Niro

When oil is discovered in 1920s Oklahoma under Osage Nation land, the Osage people are murdered one by one—until the FBI steps in to unravel the mystery.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Leonardo DiCaprio, Robert De Niro, Lily Gladstone

Against formidable odds -- and an old-school diving instructor embittered by the U.S. Navy's new, less prejudicial policies -- Carl Brashear sets his sights on becoming the Navy's first African-American master diver in this uplifting true story. Their relationship starts out on the rocks, but fate ultimately conspires to bring the men together into a setting of mutual respect, triumph and honor.
Dir. George Tillman Jr. · With Robert De Niro, Cuba Gooding Jr., Charlize Theron

A briefcase with undisclosed contents – sought by Irish terrorists and the Russian mob – makes its way into criminals' hands. An Irish liaison assembles a squad of mercenaries, or 'ronin', and gives them the thorny task of recovering the case.
Dir. John Frankenheimer · With Robert De Niro, Jean Reno, Natascha McElhone

A bounty hunter pursues a former Mafia accountant who is also being chased by a rival bounty hunter, the F.B.I., and his old mob boss after jumping bail.
Dir. Martin Brest · With Robert De Niro, Charles Grodin, Yaphet Kotto
An on-the-scene documentary following the events of September 11, 2001 from an insider's view, through the lens of two French filmmakers who simply set out to make a movie about a rookie NYC fireman and ended up filming the tragic event that changed our lives forever.
Dir. James Hanlon, Gédéon Naudet, Jules Naudet · With Tony Benatatos, Jamal Braithwaite, Joseph Casaliggi

Sam Bowden is a small-town corporate attorney. Max Cady is a tattooed, cigar-smoking, Bible-quoting, psychotic rapist. What do they have in common? 14 years ago, Sam was a public defender assigned to Max Cady's rape trial, and he made a serious error: he hid a document from his illiterate client that could have gotten him acquitted. Now, the cagey Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
Dir. Martin Scorsese · With Robert De Niro, Nick Nolte, Jessica Lange

After losing his job and wife, and spending time in an institution, a former teacher winds up living with his parents. He wants to rebuild his life and reconcile with his wife, but his father would be happy if he shared his obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when he meets Tiffany Maxwell who offers to help him reconnect with his wife if he will do something very important for her in exchange.
Dir. David O. Russell · With Bradley Cooper, Jennifer Lawrence, Robert De Niro
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