Killers of the Flower Moon (
2023) | IMDb:
7.8
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.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Robert De Niro
,
Lily Gladstone
,
Jesse Plemons
,
Tantoo Cardinal
,
John Lithgow
The Irishman (
2019) | IMDb:
7.8
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.
Silence (
2016) | IMDb:
7.2
Two Jesuit priests travel to seventeenth century Japan which has, under the Tokugawa shogunate, banned Catholicism and almost all foreign contact.
Starring:
Andrew Garfield
,
Adam Driver
,
Liam Neeson
,
Yosuke Kubozuka
,
Tadanobu Asano
,
Issey Ogata
The Wolf of Wall Street (
2013) | IMDb:
8.2
A New York stockbroker refuses to cooperate in a large securities fraud case involving corruption on Wall Street, corporate banking world and mob infiltration. Based on Jordan Belfort's autobiography.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Jonah Hill
,
Margot Robbie
,
Kyle Chandler
,
Rob Reiner
,
Matthew McConaughey
Hugo (
2011) | IMDb:
7.5
Orphaned and alone except for an uncle, Hugo Cabret lives in the walls of a train station in 1930s Paris. Hugo's job is to oil and maintain the station's clocks, but to him, his more important task is to protect a broken automaton and notebook left to him by his late father. Accompanied by the goddaughter of an embittered toy merchant, Hugo embarks on a quest to solve the mystery of the automaton and find a place he can call home.
Starring:
Asa Butterfield
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Chloë Grace Moretz
,
Sacha Baron Cohen
,
Ray Winstone
,
Emily Mortimer
Shutter Island (
2010) | IMDb:
8.2
World War II soldier-turned-U.S. Marshal Teddy Daniels investigates the disappearance of a patient from a hospital for the criminally insane, but his efforts are compromised by troubling visions and a mysterious doctor.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Mark Ruffalo
,
Ben Kingsley
,
Michelle Williams
,
Emily Mortimer
,
Patricia Clarkson
The Departed (
2006) | IMDb:
8.5
To take down South Boston's Irish Mafia, the police send in one of their own to infiltrate the underworld, not realizing the syndicate has done likewise. While an undercover cop curries favor with the mob kingpin, a career criminal rises through the police ranks. But both sides soon discover there's a mole among them.
Starring:
Jack Nicholson
,
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Matt Damon
,
Mark Wahlberg
,
Vera Farmiga
,
Martin Sheen
The Aviator (
2004) | IMDb:
7.5
A biopic depicting the life of filmmaker and aviation pioneer Howard Hughes from 1927 to 1947, during which time he became a successful film producer and an aviation magnate, while simultaneously growing more unstable due to severe obsessive-compulsive disorder.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Cate Blanchett
,
Kate Beckinsale
,
John C. Reilly
,
Alan Alda
,
Danny Huston
Gangs of New York (
2002) | IMDb:
7.5
In 1863, Amsterdam Vallon returns to the Five Points of America to seek vengeance against the psychotic gangland kingpin, Bill the Butcher, who murdered his father years earlier. With an eager pickpocket by his side and a whole new army, Vallon fights his way to seek vengeance on the Butcher and restore peace in the area.
Starring:
Leonardo DiCaprio
,
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Cameron Diaz
,
Jim Broadbent
,
John C. Reilly
,
Henry Thomas
Bringing Out the Dead (
1999) | IMDb:
6.8
Once called "Father Frank" for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank Pierce sees the ghosts of those he failed to save around every turn. He has tried everything he can to get fired, calling in sick, delaying taking calls where he might have to face one more victim he couldn't help, yet cannot quit the job on his own.
Starring:
Nicolas Cage
,
Patricia Arquette
,
John Goodman
,
Ving Rhames
,
Tom Sizemore
,
Marc Anthony
Kundun (
1997) | IMDb:
7
The Tibetans refer to the Dalai Lama as 'Kundun', which means 'The Presence'. He was forced to escape from his native home, Tibet, when communist China invaded and enforced an oppressive regime upon the peaceful nation. The Dalai Lama escaped to India in 1959 and has been living in exile in Dharamsala ever since.
Casino (
1995) | IMDb:
8.2
In early-1970s Las Vegas, Sam "Ace" Rothstein gets tapped by his bosses to head the Tangiers Casino. At first, he's a great success in the job, but over the years, problems with his loose-cannon enforcer Nicky Santoro, his ex-hustler wife Ginger, her con-artist ex Lester Diamond and a handful of corrupt politicians put Sam in ever-increasing danger.
The Age of Innocence (
1993) | IMDb:
7.2
In 19th century New York high society, a young lawyer falls in love with a woman separated from her husband, while he is engaged to the woman's cousin.
Starring:
Daniel Day-Lewis
,
Michelle Pfeiffer
,
Winona Ryder
,
Alexis Smith
,
Geraldine Chaplin
,
Jonathan Pryce
Cape Fear (
1991) | IMDb:
7.3
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.
Starring:
Robert De Niro
,
Nick Nolte
,
Jessica Lange
,
Juliette Lewis
,
Joe Don Baker
,
Robert Mitchum
GoodFellas (
1990) | IMDb:
8.7
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.