​Scarface (1983)

​Scarface (1983)

​Scarface (1983)

Director: Brian De Palma
Cast: Al Pacino, Steven Bauer, Michelle Pfeiffer, F. Murray Abraham, Robert Loggia

Al Pacino stars as Tony Montana, whose intelligence, guts, and ambition help him skyrocket from dishwasher to the top of a criminal empire but whose eventual paranoia and incestuous desire for his kid sister (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio) prove his undoing. Michelle Pfeiffer plays Tony's neglected coke-addicted trophy wife, and Steven Bauer is his concerned friend.



Tony Montana a violent and ambitious Cuban refugee, arrives in Miami, Florida during the 1980 Mariel boatlift. Montana becomes a gangster against the backdrop of the 1980s cocaine boom. The film chronicles his rise to the top of Miami's criminal underworld and subsequent downfall in tragic Greek fashion.

Alfredo James Pacino

is an Academy Award-, Golden Globe-, Tony-, BAFTA-, Emmy- and SAG award-winning American film and stage actor and director, widely considered to be one of the greatest and most influential actors of all time. He is well known for his roles as Michael Corleone in the The Godfather trilogy, Tony Montana in Scarface and Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade in Scent of a Woman.


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