An acting heavyweight in a league of his own, Robert De Niro proved himself adept at both serious and comic roles. Naturally, this list will have more films of his most frequent collaborator.
Filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola's casting of De Niro as the younger version of Don Vito Corleone, the Mario Puzo creation immortalised in film by actor Marlon Brando, fetched the actor his first Oscar.
Scorsese's masterpiece is an explosive, Dostoevsky-coded meditation on vigilantism and urban alienation in a post-Vietnam emotional landscape that draws from writer Schrader's personal experiences tinged with male angst and loneliness.
Michael Mann's seminal crime epic, co-starring Al Pacino in an equally strong and competent role, influenced numerous filmmakers from Christopher Nolan ('The Dark Knight') to Ben Affleck ('The Town')
De Niro deservedly won the Best Actor Oscar for his smoldering turn based on the real-life boxer Jake LaMotta in one of director Scorsese's greatest films, written by Paul Schrader.
Scorsese's breakthrough film about a group of friends, each with distinct personalities, in a crime-ridden landscape that reeks of desperation and highly volatiles emotions, is a raw and gritty acting masterclass.
De Niro, with the great Charles Grodin, demonstrated his comedic skills in this Martin Brest directorial that proved the actor can tickle your funny bone as much as any actor specialised in the genre
Three gangster films by Scorsese that are stylistically very similar, an impressive feat considering that many directors fail to recreate the storytelling merits of their early classics many years later.
If you're a celebrity, you don't want to be followed by the kind of psychotic stalker that De Niro plays in this dark comedy. Notably, one of the primary influences for Todd Phillips' 'Joker'