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 (Robert De Niro) in this searing, epic crime drama based on the chilling true-life best seller Wiseguy by Nicholas Pileggi.
No movie could be as good as Good Fellas, but there are some movies that are similar. It's interesting to contrast and compare them all as a way of clarifying what makes Good Fellas so great.
A weapons dealer is forced to make a deal with the government to become an informant on his crime family bosses in this classic crime drama starring Robert Mitchum, Peter Boyle and Richard Jordan.
Family Enforce aka The Death Collector
The film follows Jerry Bolanti, a small-time, short tempered crook who becomes a debt collector for an organized crime leader. Frank Vincent (the guy who tells Joe Pesci to "go get his shoe shine box" in Goodfellas) is also in this movie along with Pesci.
A story of two childhood friends from New York who become wealthy and powerful gangsters during the 1920's. Neither can satisfy his deepest dreams and hungers, and they separate in an explosion of violence which won't come to light for 35 years.
During a two-year infiltration of the Mob, FBI agent Joe Pistone, alias Donnie Brasco, becomes torn between his commitment to his job and family, and the increasingly violent and seductive demands of his new identity.
True story about a bank robbery gone haywire one hot August day when two optimistic losers, the frantic master-mind Sonny, and his slow-witted buddy Sal, attempt to rob a Brooklyn bank. Stars Al Pacino and John Cazale as his crime cohort. Directed by Sydney Lumet.
Blind ambition, white-hot passion and 24-karat greed toppled a Las Vegas casino empire.
The story of Jordan Belfort, from his rise to a wealthy stock-broker lifestyle to his demise involving crime, corruption and the federal government.
In the poverty-stricken favelas of Rio de Janeiro in the 1970s, two young men choose different paths. Rocket is a budding photographer who documents the increasing drug-related violence of his neighborhood. José "Zé" Pequeno is an ambitious drug dealer who uses Rocket and his photos as a way to increase his fame as a turf war erupts with his rival.
A young hustler strives to break free from the challenges and lures of the ghetto in pursuit of a better future.
