Every Scorsese Movie Drinking Game, Ranked by Pure Chaos
Martin Scorsese has been making movies about men who make terrible decisions for over fifty years. We made drinking games for six of them. Some are a steady buzz that builds over three hours. One will have you crawling to the kitchen for water before the second act is over.
We ranked them by how much you'll actually drink. Not by Rotten Tomatoes score. Not by Oscar count. By sheer volume of alcohol consumed if you play honestly from first frame to last.
Good luck out there.
6. Taxi Driver
The quietest Scorsese. The quietest game. Travis Bickle drives through rainy New York, writes in his diary, drinks milk alone, and stares at people until they look away. The Bernard Herrmann score shifts between jazz and something deeply wrong, and that's your main sip trigger alongside the neon-lit taxi rides. It's a slow burn that mirrors the movie itself. You'll sip steadily for two hours and feel increasingly uncomfortable about it. The Bickle Bitter is rye and Fernet-Branca. It bites. That's the point.
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5. Raging Bull
Jake LaMotta punches things. That's the whole game. Slow-motion ring violence, blood spraying off the ropes, flashbulbs popping like strobe lights. Between fights, Jake accuses Vickie of looking at other men and Joey tries to calm him down. The sip rules cluster during boxing sequences and go quiet during domestic scenes, so the pacing is uneven in a way that keeps you off balance. The shot rules are devastating. Sugar Ray's knockout. Jake screaming in the jail cell. And that final mirror speech will wreck you. The Bronx Bull is bourbon and blood orange, because what else would it be.
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4. The Departed
Cell phones run this game. Colin Sullivan checks his nervously. Billy Costigan's rings during undercover scenes. The word "rat" comes up more than you'd expect in a movie literally about rats. Dignam's F-bombs at superiors are a reliable sip, and the Dropkick Murphys needle drop hits early and hard. The back half stacks fast once bodies start dropping. Queenan off the rooftop is a shot. The elevator scene is the chug, and it earns that designation. The Southie Sour is rye with maple syrup and egg white. Boston in a glass.
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3. Goodfellas
Henry Hill never stops narrating. That's your baseline sip, and it fires constantly because the man will not shut up. Tommy's "Funny how?" riff is another reliable trigger. Then the Layla piano outro kicks in over the body montage and suddenly you're stacking sip-on-sip while Scorsese cuts between corpses in cars and meat trucks. The Copacabana tracking shot is a drink-twice that you'll see coming and still won't be ready for. Billy Batts and the shinebox? Shot. Spider's foot? Shot. The fourth-wall break at the end is the chug. We named the cocktail The Copacabana because you walk into this game through the back entrance and come out different.
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2. Casino
Three hours. Pastel suits. Dueling narrators. Nicky and Ace keep contradicting each other in voiceover, and every time they do, you drink. Every time Ace changes his outfit, you drink. Every time the surveillance cameras zoom in on a cheater, you drink. Every time Ginger reaches for a drink or a pill, you drink. The B.B. King and Stones cues are constant. This game is a war of attrition. The shot rules are nasty. The vice scene. The car bomb. And the cornfield finale is a chug that sits with you long after the credits roll. The Tangiers High Roller is bourbon and maraschino. Sip it slow, because the house always wins.
1. The Wolf of Wall Street
Three hours. Jordan Belfort ingests a controlled substance in roughly every other scene. That's your sip rule, and it never stops firing. Donnie eats weird things. Brokers scream into phones. Jordan breaks the fourth wall constantly. The chest-pound hum at the restaurant is a sip that'll make your whole watch party do it along with him. Then the Quaalude crawl happens and it's a shot, and the "I'm not leaving" speech is a shot, and the pen-selling finale is the chug. We tested this game. We stopped counting at the ninety-minute mark. If you play this one honest, you're in for a long night. The Stratton Sidecar is cognac and Cointreau with a sugared rim. Expensive taste. Irresponsible behavior. Sounds about right.
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The Scorsese Cocktail Menu
Every film got its own cocktail. Here's the full lineup:
| Film | Cocktail | Spirit |
|------|----------|--------|
| Taxi Driver | The Bickle Bitter | Rye |
| Raging Bull | The Bronx Bull | Bourbon |
| Goodfellas | The Copacabana | Cognac |
| Casino | The Tangiers High Roller | Bourbon |
| The Departed | The Southie Sour | Rye |
| The Wolf of Wall Street | The Stratton Sidecar | Cognac |
Two cognacs for the money movies. Two ryes for the bitter ones. Two bourbons for the violent ones. That's not intentional. It just worked out that way.
How to Run a Scorsese Marathon
Pick two. Scorsese movies run long, so two films is already five hours minimum. Our recommended pairings:
The Mob Double Feature: Goodfellas + Casino. Same director. Same lead actors. Same world. Five and a half hours of organized crime with two cocktails that belong on the same bar cart.
The Spiral: Taxi Driver + The Wolf of Wall Street. Travis Bickle has nothing. Jordan Belfort has everything. Both men are completely unhinged. The tonal whiplash between these two is wild, and the drinking game intensity goes from whisper to scream.
The Boston-to-Bronx Express: The Departed + Raging Bull. Rats and fists. Two cities. Two very different kinds of pain. Start with Boston, end in the Bronx, and try not to think about it too hard.
Browse all our Crime drinking games for more, or check out the Tarantino collection if you want to keep the director marathon going.