Raging Bull

Easily the greatest boxing film of all time, The story of the rise and fall of middle weight boxing champ Jake Lamotta is an absolute masterpiece of filmmaking from director Martin Scorsese. Its also one of the greatif not the greatestRobert DeNiro roles. Denier portrayed Lamotta as a beast among men; utterly driven to win no matter the cost to himself physical or emotionally. Along with the graphic fight scenes, Scorsese crafted a brilliant character study of one of the most fascinating athletes of the 20th century.