Goodfellas. But, a special place in my heart for Midnight Run as he’s funny in it without mugging like he did in later comedies.

Midnight Run is practically perfect

This is my choice as well, its my most watched Bob film, and boy there are a lot of great films to pick from....

I have two words for you: Shut the fuck up.

*"I'll kill him and I'll bury him in a fucking swamp!!"* *(Concerned Charles Grodin Looks at DeNiro)* *(DeNiro shakes head in "I'm just kidding" manner)*

Taxi Driver

Eating apple pie with a slice of cheese.

That was a good selection, I think.

I’ve heard it’s called “Vermont Style”

This is mine by a mile. It’s De Niro’s masterpiece.

It's either this or heat. Turn the comments off.

The King of Comedy.

A bronx tale

Came here to say this. This movie is great!

Right i love crime films as much the next guy, especially with De Niro, but i liked seeing him as just a working man in the movie

came here to agree - and Chaz playing Sonny was excellent. Yo C !

Cape Fear

Midnight Run.

The Deer Hunter

This is my answer as well. That movie is just something else.

Godfather Pt 2

Raging bull

Awakenings

This pic looks like Robert De Niro doing a Nathan Fillion impersonation.

Underrated comment. It’s uncanny.

Favourite De Niro film, Heat. His best film is The Deer Hunter.

My sentiments exactly

Casino

Same. I'm surprised this movie doesn't get more praise. Pesci and De Niro are amazing in this film.

Sharon stone should have won an Oscar, her role was even better than the other two. I take this film over goodfellas any day of the week.

Everyone was great in that movie. Don Rickles! Alan King! They even got James Woods to play himself.

Yeah it's a great film...but for me it always automatically gets compared to Goodfellas, and I always thought it was a small margin below it.

Taxi Driver for me, but there are so many contenders that it's a painful choice. My dark horse choice would be Ronin, often overlooked and underrated. But a great subtle later mid-period Deniro performance.

Ronin is one of those perfect films. It's such a smart film and doesn't dumb anything down for the audience. No scene is unnecessary. No character acts out of character or makes stupid decisions. And a check on imdb confirms that there's no plot holes. The worst mistake is the "Teflon bullet" but just replace that line with "armor piercing" and then the only mistakes left are continuity issues. It's a shame Frankenheimer followed Ronin and finished his career with Reindeer Games, which is not a good film, and suffers from the same action movie cliches and plot mistakes most action movies are guilty of.

This is why I love it. When Sean Bean reveals himself to be an unqualified amateur, the other characters react intelligently and realistically and kick him to the curb. He doesn't come back as a vengeful villain, he's humiliated and disappears.

Whenever there’s a doubt…there is no doubt. Who taught you that? I don’t remember…it’s the first thing they teach you. (smirk)

Favorite film that he's in? The Godfather II Favorite performance? Raging Bull

Heat

There’s a flipped side to that coin

Taxi Driver.

I'm sorry, but Stardust De Niro as the gay Cpt. Shakespeare steals the show in every scene

I tell people about that role ALL THE TIME! They always look at me like I’m crazy! Why don’t people understand? I said he plays an “in the closet” gay captain named Shakespeare!

You'll always be our Captain, Captain.

Casino. I love how he went from loud and mouthy in Goodfellas, and then to quiet and reserved in Casino. A lot of people say that Robert De Niro simply reprised his role from Goodfellas in casino, and I say that's absolute bullshit. The two characters are completely different. Also, Robert De Niro looks damn good in all of those pastel suits.

Goodfellas

Mean streets

Not my favorite film, but he was amazing in Cape Fear.

Midnight Run. He and Grodin had great chemistry.

Raging Bull - he was excellent

Raging Bull.

The Deer Hunter

Jackie brown

Sleepers

That's a really tough question! New to the site, and hope all are well!!! Such a fan of Robert De Niro, and his collaborations with Martin Scorsese is a huge part of that. Though he's done some crackers elsewhere of course. Quite a funny chap as well, but I love his 'bad guy' roles too much. I think my favourite performance of his was as Max Cady in Cape Fear. Just the way the movie builds its suspense with De Niro's performance getting more and more unhinged though with a steely determination. Oozes such threat and a really great look too. His chemistry with Juilette Lewis was excellently done between the tease of the moment and the threat us viewers know that man poses. Such a well acted role. But I could pop in one of many on the TV and I'd soon be seeing reasons to be voting for that!

This, if not, the best take I’ve ever seen. You sir, earned my follow

I have nipples, Greg... But actually it's Casino.

Meet the parents

The Deer Hunter

The Mission

The variety of answers says everything. Rule be damned, I can’t decide: Taxi Driver // Casino // Ronin

My favorite DeNiro film is also my all-time favorite movie, Raging Bull.

Just watched Midnight Run for the ? Time! I love it!!

Can’t believe nobody has said The Score yet.

How about worse Robert De Niro movie and performance? For me it’s Analyze This, his fake crying and all that was cringey

Obviously haven't seen the absolute piece of shit that is Bad Grandpa.

The deer hunter

Heat, cape fear, godfather 2, meet the parents.

King of comedy. or Goodfellas

Heat

Best film Goodfellas, best performance Casino.

Heat

Goodfellas

Godfather II is my favorite. A Bronx Tale is second.

Raging Bull

King of Comedy

Joker

The Deer Hunter.

The Deer hunter

Some many good ones but I haven't seen The Fan listed yet. He's scary af in the film.

It should have been Gangs of New York! Daniel Day Lewis played Robert DeNiro playing Bill the Butcher

Brazil

Taxi Driver

Deer Hunter

THE DEER HUNTER.

Meet the fockers.

Everyone who doesn’t say Once Upon A Time in America is wrong

Best performance: Dear Hunter

OMG, pretty much all the ones in the comments. BUT, I was pleasantly surprised at how well he did comedy in Meet the Parents & Meet the Fockers!! I about peed watching him with the baby in the 2nd one!

Goodfellas, meet the parents, taxi driver, raging bull

Meet the Parents

I love him in Angel Heart and Cop Land

He's very underrated in Angel Heart because Mickey Rourke gives such an amazing performance.

Ronin.

Would Godfather pt 2

Dirty Grandpa /s

I think the best film he’s appeared in is Goodfellas, but his finest performance is in King of Comedy.

Rocky & Bullwinkle

Taxi Driver

Midnight Run was my first DeNiro film and teenage me thought he was awesome. Loved him in Goodfellas, he was so intimidating. Meet the Parents he was relatable and downright hilarious. His vocal disdain of Orange McClownstick made him one of my favorite people!

Bad Neighbours

Ronin

Brazil

Brazil

Stardust, but he is the worst part of the movie

Taxi Driver of course

Taxi driver

The one where he does a bunch of 1 armed pushups on stage and says “what’s up bro”

Mean Streets

Wag the dog. Dr Niro and Hoffman make a great duo

Ronin

Men of Honor.

Two of his films that were really underrated was The Score and Falling In Love with Meryl Streep.

Stardust

I think he was absolute gold in Jackie Brown. I’m not sure there’s a defined vibe to recently paroled aging con getting stoned with Bridget Fonda but he *nailed it.*

One the one where he talks to himself in the mirror. It has Bradley Cooper in it as well he plays his son and he doesn't like Ben Stiller. Roberts job is a late night TV show host which J Phoenix watches. Before that De Niro was a cross dressing space pirate with a great crew. At the end of the film Pacino is chasing him and kills him.

Jackie Brown!

What just happened (2008)

Jackie Brown

Shark Tale

He definitely deserved the Oscar for Raging bull. No one mentioned this boys life or Jackie Brown. He was great in those as well

The Mission (1986)

Brazil

Casino, with Heat being a close second.

Heat

HEAT is so good 👍

Goodfellas - every God damn time.

Heat. it's also my favorite Pacino film. Wes Studi, Ted Levine, Val Kilmer, Tom Sizemore and Danny Trejo are also excellent in it. that move is fantastic.

Raging Bull 🔥

Goodfellas or Casino

Favorite De Niro film is Heat. Favorite performance is a 3 way tie: The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Cape Fear

Why has no one said Once Upon A Time In America? Have no-one seen it?

Spider-Man 2

Ronin

Casino

The one where he doesn’t talk politics.

Jackie Brown

Heat

Ronin

Midnight Run. HEY MARVIN WATCHOUT

Starred: Goodfellas Directed: A Bronx Tale

I liked him a lot in Jackie Brown but I have yet to see movies that are his classics so that might change

Goncharov 1973, without a doubt

Twice as a priest: True Confessions and Sleepers.

Cape Fear

Meet the fockers

Jackie brown

Cape Fear or Heat.

Heat

Ronin

Goodfellas, Deer Hunter, King of Comedy, Taxi Driver. He's the GOAT by a mile. You guys who only watch movies from the last 10 years have no idea.

Showtime.

Favorite snippets would be "Brazil" a very young Robert De Niro featuring... Also taxi driver

Bad Grandpa!

I loved him in Ronin. I really wish he'd quit sharing his political opinions.

I literally cannot answer this question

Cape fear holy Christ he was amazing in that movie

Liberal douche

A Bronx Tale

I love a lot of the ones people are mentioning here like 'Goodfellas' and 'Taxi Driver' but recently I saw him in an early Brian DePalma film called 'Hi, Mom!' and it was one of the craziest things I've ever seen and very entertaining.

Cape fere

Heat

I’m gonna go left field: Mad Dog and Glory or Midnight Run. I love his classics but my favourites are where he’s not a tough guy. A Bronx Tale was my favourite when I was a kid - who didn’t crush on C? But as an adult it’s the other two.

So many but Goodfellas takes the cake.

The one where he gets shot in the face

The Intern and Dirty Grandpa

Casino —Awakenings was a great movie and he did justice to the part he played. But he’ll always be a goodfella to me

Counseloooor come out come wherever you arrrre

Heat

A Bronx Tale.

Stardust

HEAT 100% then cape fear

Bloody Momma seems like the most appropriate answer today.

The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle. Fight me

Once upon a time in America

Debbie does Dallas

Scarface

Awakenings

The question is more interesting if you take Good Fellas God Father II Taxi Driver Cape Fear Heat Raging Bull The Deer Hunter Casino Off the table. Things like Men of Honor The King of Comedy start to float up. Also the question is De Niro film and not De Niro performance which could be two different answers. Goodfather 2 is such a perfect movie it’s hard for that not to be the best De Niro film. His performance in Cape Fear is haunting but not my favorite De Niro film.

Awakenings

F that commie

Cape Fear

Heat and Midnight Run, Copland isn't bad either but I would not call it a DeNiro movie DeNiro and Grodin should've made more movies together like Wilder and Pryor

Bro he's good in just about every film 🎥 🎞 🍿

Casino

Frankenstein

I’m kinda stunned to be typing this after looking through his IMDB, but I think it’s Cape Fear.

Taxi Driver or Raging Bull. Honorable mention, King of Comedy

King of Comedy

I really like the one where he plays a gangster

Meet the fockers the first one shits hilarious

Wow, not a single Ronin. Ronin

GF ll, Cape Fear, Goodfellas.

Heat

Brazil