Goodfellas

1990 • 145 minutes

About this movie

Gangsters never refer to themselves as gangsters. They are made-men, wiseguys or Goodfellas. Academy Award-winning director Martin Scorsese exposes the fascinating, mysterious and violent underworld of New York's Mafia families through the life of insider Henry Hill (Ray Liotta) as he rises from smalltime thug to mobster under the guidance of Jimmy Conway (Academy Award winner Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.

Ratings and reviews

Best mob movie of all time. “And one day some kids from the neighborhood carried my mother’s groceries all the way home. You know why? It was respect.”

This movie is one of the best movies my family and I have scene leaves your heart questioning for more get your mine to think about more!... thank you very much wonderful movie

Number 1 in my top 10 movies of all time. They basically use the book Wiseguy from which it's based as the script. One rare instance of the movie being better than the book.