Kundun

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Year:1997
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Melissa Mathison (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
*4224

Goodfellas

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Year:1990
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Nicholas Pileggi (Author), Nicholas Pileggi (Screenplay), Martin Scorsese (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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.
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Gangs of New York

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Year:2002
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Jay Cocks (Screenplay), Steven Zaillian (Screenplay), Kenneth Lonergan (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:It's 1863. America was born in the streets. 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.
*4110

Casino

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Year:1995
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Martin Scorsese (Screenplay), Nicholas Pileggi (Screenplay), Nicholas Pileggi (Novel)

Script Synopsis:In early-1970s Las Vegas, low-level mobster 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.
*3968

Cape Fear

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Year:1991
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:John D. MacDonald (Novel), Wesley Strick (Screenplay), John D. MacDonald (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis: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? Fourteen 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, bibliophile Cady has been released, and he intends to teach Sam Bowden and his family a thing or two about loss.
*3964

Bringing Out the Dead

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Year:1999
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Paul Schrader (Screenplay)

Script Synopsis:48 hours in the life of a burnt-out paramedic. Once called Father Frank for his efforts to rescue lives, Frank 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.
*3955

After Hours

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Year:1985
Director:Martin Scorsese
Written by:Joseph Minion (Author)

Script Synopsis:An ordinary word processor has the worst night of his life after he agrees to visit a girl in Soho whom he met that evening at a coffee shop.
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