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Robert De Niro

Born: 17 August 1943, Greenwich Village,NY

Highlighted works

  • Wag the Dog

    This satire stars Robert De Niro as a spin doctor and Dustin Hoffman as a Hollywood producer, together tasked with creating fake news.

  • Taxi Driver

    Taxi Driver

    Martin’s Scorsese’s unsettling story of disturbed New York cab driver Travis Bickle (Robert De Niro) is a classic of 70s cinema.

  • The Deer Hunter

    The Deer Hunter

    Along with Apocalypse Now, Michael Cimino’s brutal but ultimately contemplative war movie is a key American cinematic take on the Vietnam conflict.

  • Raging Bull

    Raging Bull

    Starring Robert De Niro as the middleweight boxer Jake La Motta, Scorsese’s biopic is widely acknowledged as one of the greatest films of the 1980s.

  • Brazil

    Brazil

    Terry Gilliam’s fantastical satire of bureaucracy gone mad is one of the most visually imaginative works in modern cinema.

  • Heat

    Heat

    Michael Mann’s cat-and-mouse thriller stars Al Pacino and Robert De Niro.

  • The Godfather Part II

    The Godfather Part II

    The expansive second part of Francis Ford Coppola’s Mafia saga continues the Corleone family story, charting in parallel young Vito’s earlier rise to prominence.

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