Mean Streets (1973)

Directed by Martin Scorsese

This is an early example of Scorsese's now well tread genre: the crime picture.  First major role for Harvey Keitel, and a very early one for De Niro as well.  The budding talent is jumping off the screen here.  Has more of a loose indie-film feel to it than Scorsese's later work.  Not as caustically violent as his later gangster pictures.