One of several creative peaks collaboratively reached by De Niro and Scorsese, the duo here reunite with Taxi Driver writer Paul Schrader for this bruising biopic of boxer Jake LaMotta. A modern classic in moody black and white, Raging Bull is an expansive study of self-destructive masculinity.

Instincts both maternal and carnal clatter like shards of glass in a blender in this uncompromising portrait of a woman on the edge from director Lynne Ramsay. Starring Jennifer Lawrence and Robert Pattinson in a frenzied pas de deux, Die My Love inflames the exposed nerves of delirium and desire.

The glamor of talent and the realities of the road share a mic in Martin Scorsese’s The Last Waltz, which traps a lost age of rock stardom in prismatic glass. Three crystal chandeliers—which once dressed the sets of Gone with the Wind—hang over hi-hats and amps in this genre-defining concert film.

Crafting sly portraits of American sin from lurid exploitation fare, this gleefully scrappy early work heralds Martin Scorsese’s emergence as a seminal director. Brash and kinetic yet sweeping in scope, this outlaw odyssey through the Depression-era South is a panoramic vision of national violence.