D'entre a suya ampla filmografía, cal destacar-ne bellas cintas, como Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore (1974, con Ellen Burstyn, Alfred Lutter, Kris Kristofferson, Billy Green Bush, Diane Ladd, Lelia Goldoni, Lane Bradbury, Vic Tayback, Jodie Foster y Harvey Keitel), Taxi Driver (1976, con Robert De Niro, Jodie Foster, Albert Brooks, Harvey Keitel, Leonard Harris, Peter Boyle y Cybill Shepherd), Raging Bull (1980, con Robert De Niro, Cathy Moriarty y Joe Pesci), The Color of Money (1986, con Paul Newman, Tom Cruise y Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio), The Last Temptation of Christ (1988, con Willem Dafoe, Harvey Keitel, Barbara Hershey, Harry Dean Stanton yDavid Bowie), Goodfellas (1990, con Ray Liotta, Robert De Niro, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco y Paul Sorvino), Gangs of New York (2002, con Leonardo DiCaprio, Daniel Day-Lewis y Cameron Diaz), The Aviator (2004, con Leonardo DiCaprio, Cate Blanchett, Alan Alda, Alec Baldwin, Kate Beckinsale, John C. Reilly, Gwen Stefani, Jude Law y Willem Dafoe), Hugo (2011, con Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Chloë Grace Moretz, Sacha Baron Cohen, Helen McCrory, Richard Griffiths, Frances de la Tour, Ray Winstone, Emily Mortimer, Jude Law y Christopher Lee).