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Robert De Niro

About: This influential actor was born August 17, 1943, in New York City. A Lee Strasberg acting student, De Niro made his film debut in 1963's The Wedding Party (released in 1969). First noted in late-'60s underground comedies (Greetings and Hi, Mom!), De Niro gradually moved into studio films.His breakthrough came with two 1973 films: Bang the Drum Slowly and Mean Streets, which began a long association with director Martin Scorsese. De Niro won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as the young Vito Corleone in The Godfather, Part II (1974); later, he gained 50 pounds to play Jake La Motta in Raging Bull (1980), which resulted in a Best Actor Oscar win.He was also Oscar-nominated for Taxi Driver, The Deer Hunter, Awakenings and Cape Fear and was memorable in The Untouchables, Goodfellas and Wag the Dog. De Niro has branched into all genres and started his own film production company, TriBeCa.

Bloody Mama / A Bucket of Blood

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1959
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About: Roger Corman directs this perverse pair of fun flicks. First, Shelley Winters gives a larger-than-life portrayal of notorious outlaw Ma Baker, who drafts her psycho sons -- played by Clint Kimbrough, Robert Walden and Robert De Niro -- into a life of crime in Bloody Mama. Then, a hapless busboy (Dick Miller) becomes the toast of the beatniks with his lifelike sculptures in Bucket of Blood -- but with each piece he creates, someone disappears.
URL: Bloody Mama / A Bucket of Blood

A Bronx Tale

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1993
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About: An evocative slice-of-life film. A Bronx boy (Lillo Brancato) grows to adulthood worshipping disparate heroes: his hardworking father (Robert De Niro), who drives a city bus, and the neighborhood mob boss (Chazz Palminteri), who becomes a kind of surrogate dad. Adapted from Palminteri's funny and touching play, A Bronx Tale marks De Niro's directorial debut and is a great showcase for everyone involved.
URL: A Bronx Tale

Once Upon a Time in America

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1984
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About: Director Sergio Leone's sprawling crime epic follows a group of Jewish mobsters (including Robert De Niro, James Woods and Elizabeth McGovern) who rise in the ranks of organized crime in 1920s New York. Their story unfolds in flashbacks as ringleader Noodles (De Niro) returns to Brooklyn 30 years later to reunite and reminisce with his cohorts. Nominated for two Golden Globes, this gritty drama was Leone's last directorial effort.
URL: Once Upon a Time in America

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1991
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About: It's Francis Ford Coppola vs. natural catastrophe, crazy actors, the Philippine government and crushing self-doubt in this unbelievable account of the making of the 1979 classic Apocalypse Now. Behind-the-scenes location footage is combined with candid 1990 interviews of cast and crew members; the result is a fascinating portrait of a director plunged into the very obsession he sought to portray on film.
URL: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

America: A Tribute to Heroes

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2001
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About: This 2-hour, star-studded telethon aired on all the major television networks and many cable channels. It raised millions of dollars for the victims of the Sept. 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Celebrities include Muhammad Ali, Halle Berry, Neil Young, Julia Roberts, George Clooney, Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Sarah Jessica Parker and Bruce Springsteen -- among many others. United we stand!
URL: America: A Tribute to Heroes

The Godfather: Part II

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1974
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About: Racking up Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director (Francis Ford Coppola) and Best Supporting Actor (Robert De Niro), the second film in The Godfather series continues the Corleone family's saga and explores its roots. In parallel story lines, the film traces Don Vito's (De Niro) journey from Sicilian immigrant to head of a powerful crime family, and charts his son's (Al Pacino) ascension to don as the family extends its operations to Cuba.
URL: The Godfather: Part II

GoodFellas: Special Edition

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1990
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About: Joe Pesci and Robert De Niro chew plenty of scenery, but the focus of this gripping Martin Scorsese opus is real-world mobster Henry Hill (Ray Liotta), a gangster who dreamed of making it big but landed in the Witness Protection Program instead. Nominated for six Oscars (including Best Picture), the film's only win was Pesci's Best Supporting Actor statue for his scene-stealing portrayal of ticking time bomb Tommy DeVito.
URL: GoodFellas: Special Edition

The Good Shepherd

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2006
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About: Matt Damon and Robert De Niro (who also directs) star in this partially fact-based drama that examines the early history of the CIA as seen through the eyes of a dedicated agent. An upstanding, sharp-minded Yale student, Edward Wilson (Damon) is recruited to work for the fledgling CIA during World War II. Though loyal to his country, Wilson begins to feel the job eroding his ideals, filling him with distrust and destroying his personal life.
URL: The Good Shepherd

Godsend

Rated: | Views Released Year: 2004
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About: When their son Adam (Cameron Bright) dies in a terrible accident the day after his birthday, married couple Paul (Greg Kinnear) and Jessie (Rebecca Romijn-Stamos) are contacted by a genetic research whiz (Robert De Niro) who wants to clone the boy. Caught at their worst stage of grieving, the couple agrees, hoping he can make things right. After the process is complete, things seem blissful until they realize that the "new" Adam has a dark side.
URL: Godsend

Marvin's Room

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1996
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About: The tables are turned when straight-laced Bessie (Diane Keaton) -- who devotes her life to caring for her chronically ill father (Hume Cronyn) -- must ask her estranged, bohemian sibling (Meryl Streep) for help after Bessie suffers a health catastrophe. The film is a first-class adaptation of Scott McPherson's play, with a young Leonardo DiCaprio holding his own among a heavyweight cast that includes Robert De Niro and Gwen Verdon.
URL: Marvin's Room

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1994
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About: Rejected by society, a creature (Robert De Niro) comprised of criminals' corpses and the brilliant brain of Dr. M. Waldman (John Cleese) plots revenge against his creator: the death-obsessed Dr. Viktor Frankenstein (Kenneth Branagh). Tom Hulce, Helena Bonham Carter, Aidan Quinn and Ian Holm also star in Branagh's Oscar-nominated (Best Makeup), ambitious adaptation of this classic horror story set in the early 19th century.
URL: Mary Shelley's Frankenstein

The King of Comedy

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1983
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About: Director Martin Scorsese hits a satirical bulls-eye in this black comedy that explores the absurd lengths to which nebbish Rupert Pupkin (Robert De Niro) will go to land a spot on the TV talk show of his idol, Jerry Langford (a wonderfully caustic Jerry Lewis). Pupkin believes that one appearance on Langford's show will be his ticket to stardom, so he kidnaps his idol and sets into motion a chain of events you have to see to believe!
URL: The King of Comedy

The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight

Rated: | Views Released Year: 1971
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About: Notable for a rare comic turn from Robert De Niro, this goofy gangster flick centers on a band of hapless goodfellas who hatch a plan to grab some mob action. Too bad they're idiots! Jerry Orbach ("Law & Order") plays Kid Sally, the leader of the goons, and Leigh Taylor-Young co-stars as Kid's sister, who falls for De Niro, an Italian cycling team member who's strayed off course. Jimmy Breslin penned the novel on which the film is based.
URL: The Gang that Couldn't Shoot Straight

A Bronx Tale

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About: An evocative slice-of-life film. A Bronx boy (Lillo Brancato) grows to adulthood worshipping disparate heroes: his hardworking father (Robert De Niro), who drives a city bus, and the neighborhood mob boss (Chazz Palminteri), who becomes a kind of surrogate dad. Adapted from Palminteri's funny and touching play, A Bronx Tale marks De Niro's directorial debut and is a great showcase for everyone involved.
URL: A Bronx Tale

The Good Shepherd

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About: Matt Damon and Robert De Niro (who also directs) star in this partially fact-based drama that examines the early history of the CIA as seen through the eyes of a dedicated agent. An upstanding, sharp-minded Yale student, Edward Wilson (Damon) is recruited to work for the fledgling CIA during World War II. Though loyal to his country, Wilson begins to feel the job eroding his ideals, filling him with distrust and destroying his personal life.
URL: The Good Shepherd

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