Goodfellas
It's from 1990, before you were born.
- Director
- Martin Scorsese
- Genre
- Crime
- Star
- Ray Liotta
- Released
- 1990
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About
As of 2026, it's 36 years old.
Goodfellas is Scorsese's dizzying, propulsive plunge into mob life, narrated by a wiseguy who makes crime look intoxicating right up until it curdles into paranoia and cocaine-fueled dread. 'As far back as I can remember, I always wanted to be a gangster' is one of cinema's great opening lines.
The famous unbroken tracking shot into the Copacabana, the needle-drop soundtrack, and Joe Pesci's terrifyingly unpredictable 'funny how?' became permanent fixtures of the gangster genre.
Kinetic, brilliant, and endlessly influential, Goodfellas is the film that made the mob look thrilling and then showed you exactly what it costs.
