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Goodfellas

1990 · Movie · 146 min

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Scores

  • IMDb8.7/10as of 2026-03-15
  • Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer93%as of 2026-01-11
  • Rotten Tomatoes average9/10as of 2021-10-10
  • Metacritic92/100as of 2026-01-11

What it is

Goodfellas is a 1990 American biographical gangster film directed by Martin Scorsese, written by Nicholas Pileggi and Scorsese, and produced by Irwin Winkler. It is a film adaptation of Pileggi's 1985 nonfiction book Wiseguy. Starring Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci, Lorraine Bracco and Paul Sorvino, the film narrates the rise and fall of Mafia associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

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Genres
Drama / Crime / Thriller / History
Original language
English

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