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.

Robert De Niro Ray Liotta 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, 盗亦有道, Goodfellas - Drei Jahrzehnte in der Mafia, Les Affranchis, Τα καλά παιδιά, 좋은 친구들, Buenos Muchachos, Mafiabrødre, Siki Dostlar, Godfellas

drama crime

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Review by brat pitt ★★★★ 20

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 SilentDawn ★★★★★ 17

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 Florin Stan ★★★★★ 6

"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 DirkH ★★★ 49

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 Two Cineasts ★★★★★ 18

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

Hi everybody, since Scorsese's next gangster epic "The Irishman" will soon be available on Netflix and is now for a short time in selected theaters (and I'm more than excited seeing all these positive critique right no), it's time to take a closer look on Scorsese's brilliantly witty rise-and-fall tale of high-class, exclusive gangsters (including massive Spoilers if you're not familiar with the real happenings around Henry Hill and the Lucchese crime family), that could be considered as his best work to date. As someone who can't get enough of good gangster movies, the crime…
Review by SilentDawn ★★★★★ 3

100

Umpteenth re-watch. Luminous as always.

Recent reviews

Review by Andrew K ★★★★★

Martin Scorsese’s masterpiece. Not one scene of this movie could be bettered. One of my favorite movies of all time from one of my favorite directors of all time.
Review by marebare ★★★★★

HANDS DOWN ONE OF THE GREATEST FILMS TO DATE
Review by laci ★★★½

solid, fun film. casting was pretty great and the story was good too. i might have given it a higher score if i hadn’t watched it right after watching the wolf on wall street though.
Review by bknapp11 ★★★★★

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Review by AnotherOpinion ★★★½

A very "Hollywood" look at organised crime but still a classic. Phenomenal movie.
Review by Phil A. Mignon ★★★★★

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Review by NoahLong ★★★★★

My absolute favorite movie of all time.
Review by Saurabh Singh ★★★★★

"As Far Back As I Can Remember, I Always Wanted To Be A Gangster."
Top-Tier Martin Scorsese!
No Crime Film Is Better Than This &
Nothing Can Ever Top This.
Review by Noah Wing ★★★★½

so fast paced, so fun, classic gangster movie. yet, the most stunning thing to me is that it didn’t feel like a gangster movie

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