GoodFellas

1990 Directed by Martin Scorsese

Three Decades of Life in the Mafia.

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Ray Liotta Robert De Niro Joe Pesci Lorraine Bracco Paul Sorvino Frank Sivero Tony Darrow Mike Starr Frank Vincent Chuck Low Frank DiLeo Henny Youngman Gina Mastrogiacomo Catherine Scorsese Charles Scorsese Suzanne Shepherd Debi Mazar Margo Winkler Welker White Jerry Vale Julie Garfield Christopher Serrone Elaine Kagan Beau Starr Kevin Corrigan Michael Imperioli Robbie Vinton Johnny Williams Daniel P. Conte Show All…

Alternative Titles

Buenos Muchachos, Siki Dostlar, Τα καλά παιδιά, Buenos muchachos, Godfellas, 좋은 친구들, Les Affranchis, Goodfellas - Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafia, Mafiabrødre, 盗亦有道, Maffiabröder

drama crime

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Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 36

i was gonna write “wtf this is just the mafia version of the wolf of wall street” as my review but i just KNOW some guy who hates fun would comment “Actually, GoodFellas came out 23 years prior to The Wolf of Wall Street, so technically The Wolf of Wall Street would be the stockbroker version of GoodFellas. Both films are great, though!” so it’s not worth it
Review by Patrick Willems ★★★★★ 3

Man I gotta start doing that garlic razor blade trick
Review by Florin Scanlon ★★★★★ 9

"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers." - Jimmy Two Times
"Paulie may have moved slow but it was only because Paulie didn't have to move for anybody." - Henry
"Now go home and get your fucking shine box." - Billy Batts
"Here's a wing!" - Tommy
"Why don't you go fuck yourself, Tommy!" - Spider
"Nice!" - Jimmy
"Fucking great, what nice?" - Tommy
"What did you say? Are you being a fucking wise guy with me? Ha? What did I tell you? What did I tell you? What did I tell you? You don't buy anything, you hear me? Don't buy anything!" - Jimmy
"The fuck you're looking at? Come on, make that coffee to go, let's go! The fuck you doing? It's a joke. A joke! Put the fucking pot down. Are you gonna take the coffee?" - Tommy
Wiseguys, the movie.
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 18

100/100
Had to give the "new" Blu-ray (from a 4K scan!) a spin, and it's as impossibly gorgeous as can be, enriching the murky, glorified details and cranking all the exhilaration and eventual paranoia up to 11. Even though I've seen this around 20-30 times at this point, I still get dizzy from all the detail; an entire world built up and thriving through soda pop nostalgia and the eventual nervousness of violence. Scorsese's attuned style commits fully to every aspect of the production, but it is in the strange, banal moments where his genius fully shines. Although it may be glorification in terms of technique, Goodfellas never romanticizes its band of characters or its almost Herculean setting, instead exposing…
Review by oleff ★★★★½ 4

idk man there were some pretty bad fellas in this one
Review by DirkH ★★★ 59

I decided to give Scorcese's film another go and while I still appreciate the skill involved I just cannot get myself to like this film.
The problem is that in a film full of antagonists the audience always loses. This film doesn't make me care for a single character and that completely takes me out of it. It turns me from a spectator into a passerby.
The story arch is fine and it is told with Scorcese's usual skill. Most performances are excellent and engaging, but I just keep coming back to the fact that I need a protagonists I can root for in a story like this. Our supposed hero, the way he's written, is simply not a character…
Review by maria ★★★★ 1

🎵damn it feels good to be a gangsta 🎵
Review by Branson Reese 1

My friends and I in middle school had a thing where we’d say “as far away as I can remember I always wanted to be a stupid piece of shit” and I couldn’t remember if we made that up or it was lifted from some sort of Goodfellas parody so I asked twitter and got like 500 replies saying “that’s from Goodfellas but it’s actually gangster” and my take away was that the environment will never be fixed, we’re all too stupid.
Review by Two Cineasts ★★★★★ 19

"And then there was Jimmy Two Times, who got that nickname because he said everything twice, like":
"I'm gonna go get the papers, get the papers."
(Ray Liotta as Henry Hill and Anthony Powers as Jimmy Two Times
A MASTERPIECE EXPOSING MISGUIDED LOYALTIES AND GREED, SHOWING THE INNER WORKINGS OF THE MAFIA REALISTICALLY AND COMPREHENSIBLE; WITH ONLY ONE WORD: PERFECTION, ONE WORD PERFECTION
Review by fran hoepfner ★★★★★ 1

"I like this one. One dog goes one way, the other dog goes the other way."
Review by Lulu ★★★★ 1

the fellas were good
Review by andrea🌹 ★★★½ 16

i dont know dudes i've only been properly watching films for less than a year but i'm already tired of watching grown ass white men running around shooting each other

Recent reviews

Review by BootyDemolisher ★★★½

I want hoes and money :(
Review by Brandon Black ★★★★★

Everything everyone said it was.
I can’t believe I’ve gone almost 22 years with no awareness of Jimmy Two Times, the greatest one-line character in all of cinema
Review by sethweaver98 ★★★★½

See if I was in the Mafia my gangster nickname would be “Big Guy”
But it’s ironic because I’m not particularly Tall but everyone would be like “WOOOOAH here comes Big Guy”
And I’d be like “AYYYY I walkin here BADA bing!”
:)
Review by josh

i didn’t hate it but it was kind of a slow spiral towards the inevitable and that was a bit hard to watch for 2.5 hours. love u marty
Review by maxmaxmaxmax ★★★★½

Classic movie mindset peice about guys who did nothing wrong
Review by free69 ★★★★★

This is one of those films where I can watch over and over again and never get bored of.The performances,the editing,the directing,the song choices all of it is made to absolute perfection.
Review by quigonrela ★★★★

Is this the 5th mob type movie starring Robert deniro I have watched? Yes. Did I eat it up every single time? Yes I did
Review by Mr69 ★★★★½

scorcese at his best
Review by Saul Kinoman

Scorsese crafts a gripping look into the world and culture of organized crime that manages to both make 2.5 hours fly by and feel like it's taken you on at least 2.5 hours worth of a journey. Full of iconic moments and excellent performances, its a film worth dedicating hours of analysis to.
But I'm not going to do that. As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a superficially popular Letterboxd persona. So here's me practicing my imitation of the like five people who have the top reviews on every film for some bizarre reason.
First, here's me making a one sentence joke that relies on a popular joke format and took five seconds to…
Review by Lucas Paio ★★★★★

"De Niro, Pesci, rock dos bons e comida italiana: este é o Scorsese mais scorsesiano", escrevi no Twitter há mais de um ano. É óbvio que o diretor passeia brilhantemente por outros universos (do boxe a Jesus Cristo), mas o crime organizado nas telonas é um território que ele domina, e Goodfellas, que apresenta o submundo da máfia de forma estilizada e quase didática, cheia de cenas marcantes ("Funny how?") e pequenas histórias ligadas pelo tema central, é o filme do tio Marty mais representativo desse seu subgênero particular.
Review by Kneedlknows ★★★★★

Tommy goes from being Jimmy's kid protege in the 50s to being visibly older than him in the 70s and it might literally be the only thing wrong with this movie. I don't know, I'm going through Sopranos withdrawal so I guess it won't be long till I'm back here conceding it's a perfect film.
Review by wifeofdeniro ★★★★★

I CAN NEVER GET TIRED OF TIME MOVIE!!!!!