10 Best Gangster Movies Like Goodfellas Ranked, Including Casino & Donnie Brasco
A ranking of ten gangster movies that capture the allure and cost of criminal life like Goodfellas.Summary
This ScreenRant article ranks ten gangster movies that share Goodfellas' tension between the seduction of criminal life and its eventual costs. Goodfellas is praised for making the gangster world intoxicating without endorsing it, and the list includes films that either embrace or downplay that glamour. The ranking notes frequent actors: Johnny Depp, Al Pacino, and Robert De Niro each appear three times, while Joe Pesci and Frank Vincent appear twice. The countdown starts with Legend at #10, where Tom Hardy plays both Kray twins in 1960s London. Black Mass (#9) features Depp as Whitey Bulger, whose FBI alliance fuels his power. Blow (#8) follows George Jung's cocaine rise and fall. Gotti (#7) stars Armand Assante as the Gambino boss, offering a lived-in mob world. A Bronx Tale (#6) shows gangster life through a boy's fascination with a local mob boss. Donnie Brasco (#5) stars Depp as an FBI agent infiltrating the Bonanno family, with Al Pacino as Lefty Ruggiero. American Gangster (#4) presents Denzel Washington's Frank Lucas as a disciplined businessman. Carlito's Way (#3) focuses on the difficulty of leaving crime, with Pacino as a former kingpin. The Irishman (#2) explores what remains after loyalty and violence fade. Casino (#1) tops the list as the closest companion to Goodfellas, reuniting De Niro and Pesci with Sharon Stone in a Las Vegas tale of money, greed, and collapse. The article concludes that Casino best scratches the Goodfellas itch by delivering access, money, violence, humor, and eventual downfall without repeating Henry Hill's story.
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