Movies Like GoodFellas

GoodFellas (1990) is a drama and crime film directed by Martin Scorsese. Its recurring themes include prison, florida, new york city, gangster. The 20 films below were selected because they overlap with it on measurable signals — shared genres, shared themes, overlapping cast or crew, and the audiences TMDB records as watching both. GoodFellas stars Robert De Niro, Ray Liotta, Joe Pesci; where a recommendation shares one of those performers it is noted on the card.

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20 movies similar to GoodFellas

Casino (1995) poster

Casino

1995Crime, Drama8.0

In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • based on novel or book • 1970s • murder • Directed by Martin Scorsese • Also stars Robert De Niro

The Shawshank Redemption (1994) poster

The Shawshank Redemption

1994Drama, Crime8.7

Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting ski…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • prison • based on novel or book

The Godfather Part II (1974) poster

The Godfather Part II

1974Drama, Crime8.6

In the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family bu…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • new york city • based on novel or book • gangster • Also stars Robert De Niro

Once Upon a Time in America (1984) poster

Once Upon a Time in America

1984Drama, Crime8.4

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old li…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • new york city • based on novel or book • gangster • Also stars Robert De Niro

Donnie Brasco (1997) poster

Donnie Brasco

1997Crime, Drama7.5

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • florida • new york city • gangster

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile (2019) poster

Extremely Wicked, Shockingly Evil and Vile

2019Drama, Crime7.0

A chronicle of the crimes of Ted Bundy, from the perspective of his longtime girlfriend, Elizabeth Kloepfer, who refused to believe the truth about him for years.

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • prison • based on novel or book • biography

The Godfather (1972) poster

The Godfather

1972Drama, Crime8.7

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attemp…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • based on novel or book • gangster • organized crime

The Informer (2019) poster

The Informer

2019Drama, Crime6.5

In New York, former convict Pete Koslow, related to the Polish mafia, must deal with both Klimek the General, his ruthless boss, and the twisted ambitions of two federal agents, as…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • prison • new york city • based on novel or book

Carlito's Way (1993) poster

Carlito's Way

1993Crime, Drama7.8

Free after years in prison, Carlito Brigante intends to give up his criminal ways, but it's not long before the ex-con is sucked back into the New York City underworld.

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • new york city • based on novel or book • gangster

25th Hour (2002) poster

25th Hour

2002Crime, Drama7.3

On the eve of a seven-year prison sentence, a New York drug dealer spends his final day of freedom confronting his past, his relationships, and the choices that led to his downfall…

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • new york city • based on novel or book • irish-american

A Walk Among the Tombstones (2014) poster

A Walk Among the Tombstones

2014Crime, Drama6.3

Private investigator Matthew Scudder is hired by a drug kingpin to find out who kidnapped and murdered his wife.

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • new york city • based on novel or book • murder

Layer Cake (2004) poster

Layer Cake

2004Drama, Thriller6.9

When a seemingly straight-forward drug deal goes awry, XXXX has to break his die-hard rules and turn up the heat, not only to outwit the old regime and come out on top, but to save…

Why it’s similar: Drama • Crime • based on novel or book • gangster • drug trafficking

Gotti (1996) poster

Gotti

1996Crime, Drama6.6

John Gotti, the head of a small New York mafia crew breaks a few of the old family rules. He rises to become the head of the Gambino family and the most well-known mafia boss in Am…

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • new york city • biography • based on true story • Also stars Frank Vincent

The Many Saints of Newark (2021) poster

The Many Saints of Newark

2021Crime, Drama6.3

Young Anthony Soprano is growing up in one of the most tumultuous eras in Newark, N.J., history, becoming a man just as rival gangsters start to rise up and challenge the all-power…

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama • gangster • mafia • Also stars Ray Liotta

The Devil Wears Prada (2006) poster

The Devil Wears Prada

2006Drama, Comedy7.4

A young woman from the Midwest gets more than she bargained for when she moves to New York to become a writer and ends up as the assistant to the tyrannical, larger-than-life edito…

Why it’s similar: Drama • new york city • based on novel or book

Pulp Fiction (1994) poster

Pulp Fiction

1994Thriller, Crime8.5

A burger-loving hit man, his philosophical partner, a drug-addled gangster's moll and a washed-up boxer converge in this sprawling, comedic crime caper. Their adventures unfurl in…

Why it’s similar: Crime

The Brutalist (2024) poster

The Brutalist

2024Drama6.9

When an innovative modern architect flees post-war Europe, he is given the opportunity to rebuild his legacy. Set during the dawn of the modern United States (in Pennsylvania), his…

Why it’s similar: Drama

Sleepers (1996) poster

Sleepers

1996Crime, Drama7.6

Two gangsters seek revenge on the state jail worker who during their stay at a youth prison sexually abused them. A sensational court hearing takes place to charge him for the crim…

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama

The Irishman (2019) poster

The Irishman

2019Crime, Drama7.6

Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufal…

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama

The Kitchen (2019) poster

The Kitchen

2019Action, Crime6.1

The mobster husbands of three 1978 Hell's Kitchen housewives are sent to prison by the FBI. Left with little but a sharp ax to grind, the ladies take the Irish mafia's matters into…

Why it’s similar: Crime • Drama

How this list was built

Candidates come from the recommendation and similar-title data TMDB publishes for GoodFellas, merged and deduplicated. Each candidate is then re-ranked on genre overlap, shared TMDB keywords, shared director or cast members, and audience-rating confidence. Titles without a poster, a synopsis or enough votes to be a meaningful signal are dropped rather than padded in — which is why some pages show ten results and others twenty.

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