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The Scorsese watch

Every fiction feature Martin Scorsese has directed, in release order, and how far through them the journal has got. A film goes green when it has a watched date, amber while it's being watched, and grey until then. Films with a note but no date are waiting for a date. The dark ones between were seen along the way and haven't been written up yet.

  1. 1967 Who's That Knocking at My Door Keitel as J.R., the character who becomes Charlie. to come
  2. 1972 Boxcar Bertha The Corman picture. Cassavetes called it a piece of shit and told him to make something personal. to come
  3. 1973 Mean Streets Four young men in Little Italy, a debt nobody will pay, and a would-be saint who keeps putting his hand in the fire. Scorsese's first film in his own voice, made in Los Angeles for almost nothing. noted, undated
  4. 1974 Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore Scorsese's studio women's picture: a widow, a kid, a road east, and an argument with every film Alice grew up watching. noted, undated
  5. 1976 Taxi Driver A returned soldier drives nights through a city he wants to wash away. Scorsese's first acknowledged masterpiece — and the strongest example here of point of view doing the work of an argument. watched 31 August 2026
  6. 1977 New York, New York A studio musical built from taped improvisations: the Mean Streets method on a Hollywood budget. seen, no notes yet
  7. 1980 Raging Bull seen, no notes yet
  8. 1982 The King of Comedy seen, no notes yet
  9. 1985 After Hours A word processor goes downtown for a date, loses his last $20 out of a cab window, and cannot get home. Scorsese's comedy of paranoia, shot in forty nights for $4 million after Paramount killed The Last Temptation of Christ. now watching
  10. 1986 The Color of Money to come
  11. 1988 The Last Temptation of Christ Charlie's question from Mean Streets, asked of Christ. to come
  12. 1990 Goodfellas Mean Streets with the career put back in. to come
  13. 1991 Cape Fear to come
  14. 1993 The Age of Innocence to come
  15. 1995 Casino to come
  16. 1997 Kundun to come
  17. 1999 Bringing Out the Dead to come
  18. 2002 Gangs of New York to come
  19. 2004 The Aviator to come
  20. 2006 The Departed On Axis of Action twice: the interview and the chase. to come
  21. 2010 Shutter Island to come
  22. 2011 Hugo to come
  23. 2013 The Wolf of Wall Street to come
  24. 2016 Silence to come
  25. 2019 The Irishman to come
  26. 2023 Killers of the Flower Moon to come
  27. — What Happens at Night in post-production

Documentaries

Not part of the count, but several of them are companions to the features.

  1. 1974 Italianamerican Scorsese's parents at their kitchen table. He pairs it with Mean Streets. —
  2. 1978 The Last Waltz Jonathan Taplin, who produced Mean Streets, brought him the job. —
  3. 1995 A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies —
  4. 1999 My Voyage to Italy Where he talks about I Vitelloni, the model for Mean Streets' structure. —
  5. 2005 No Direction Home: Bob Dylan —
  6. 2008 Shine a Light —
  7. 2011 George Harrison: Living in the Material World —
  8. 2019 Rolling Thunder Revue —
  9. 2022 Personality Crisis: One Night Only —
  10. 2024 Beatles '64 —

Filmography checked against Wikipedia's Martin Scorsese filmography, 26 September 2026. To mark a film, give its note a watched: date, or watching: true while it's under way. New films join the list when a note is written.