
Movies that feel likeGoodFellas (1990)
If you loved GoodFellas, the closest films we have are Casino (1995), Blow (2001) and The Departed (2006). All three share GoodFellas' contemplative and gritty feel, which is what we rank on before quality.
Seen the big three already? The under-the-radar pick below is A Short Film About Killing (1988).
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If GoodFellas hit the spot, these will too

That intoxicating rise narrated from inside, before the rot sets in
The difference: Colder and more corporate — a business autopsy more than a life

The whole arc of a criminal career, from the high to the reckoning
The difference: Sadder and softer — a sympathetic drift rather than a swagger

Scorsese again on loyalty, snitching, and the paranoia that follows
The difference: A tight double-agent thriller — plot machinery over lived-in years

Both are built on the same subject: prison

Street power and tribal loyalty in a New York built on both
The difference: A period epic with formal grandeur — less intimate, more staged

A true story of crime's price paid in years behind bars
The difference: All punishment, no high life — the seduction phase is skipped

An empire built with real discipline while the law circles patiently
The difference: Measured and procedural — no giddy momentum, no voice in your ear

A crime family's grip on a man tightening across a whole lifetime
The difference: Stately and operatic — dread builds slowly, without the rush

True crime told from inside the charmer's orbit
The difference: One predator's story — no crew, no rise-and-fall texture

The same mix in both: stillness, then grit


A nobody's education inside a criminal hierarchy, rung by rung
The difference: Confined to prison walls — French, harsh, and no narrator's charm
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