Martin Scorsese celebrates his 76th birthday on November 17, 2018. While the Oscar-winning director is perhaps best known for his violent and psychologically complex gangster pictures, he’s found success in a variety of other genres as well. In honor of his birthday, let’s take a look back at all 24 of his films, ranked worst to best.

After graduating from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, Scorsese directed the independently-financed “Who’s That Knocking at My Door?” (1967), which introduced Harvey Keitel. He became a star director with “Mean Streets” (1973), an intensely personal and brutal examination of the neighborhood he grew up in. The film was the first of many he would make with Robert De Niro, who shot to stardom as the reckless hoodlum Johnny Boy. The two reunited for the nightmarish “Taxi Driver” (1976), the first of several collaborations between the director and screenwriter Paul Schrader.

He scored his first...