From Taxi Driver to Goodfellas to The Irishman, this is Collider's ranking of Robert De Niro's greatest movies.
Given he's celebrating his 80th birthday in 2023, there's no better time than now to celebrate the remarkable acting career of the untouchable Robert De Niro. Born in 1943, his earliest film roles were in the mid to late 1960s, but it was the early 1970s that saw him become a breakout star.
9 'The Deer Hunter' When it comes to ranking the greatest and most acclaimed war movies of all time, The Deer Hunter will frequently be considered up there among the very best. A three-hour movie distinctly split into three acts, it follows a group of men before, during, and after they serve in the Vietnam War.
De Niro's far from the only actor to make an impression here, because the cast is filled with talented people, including Pam Grier, Samuel L. Jackson, Robert Forster, Bridget Fonda, and Michael Keaton. It's an underrated and very enjoyable Tarantino film, and also feels notable for being a little slower, less violent, and perhaps more mature than the other movies he made during his first decade or so as a filmmaker.
De Niro stars as an aging hitman named Frank Sheeran, with the film being largely comprised of flashbacks to the death-filled and alienated life he lived, with his various actions in his younger days continuing to haunt him in old age. Like Heat, it also stars Al Pacino , and is a phenomenally well-acted slow burn of a movie, expertly building to one of the most devastating and memorable final acts in recent memory.
4 'The Godfather: Part II' While Raging Bull got Robert De Niro his second Oscar, his supporting role in The Godfather: Part II was what got him his first. It's widely held up as one of the best sequels of all time, but it also functions as a prequel for a large chunk of its runtime, with De Niro portraying Vito Corleone during his youth, in a series of flashbacks.
2 'Taxi Driver' Three years on from Mean Streets, Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro re-teamed and returned with a vengeance, making another gritty drama set in New York City. That film was Taxi Driver, one of the decade's most important movies, centering on a war veteran grappling with insomnia, and taking up a job as a late-night cab driver to pass the time.
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