Director Martin Scorsese explores the life of organized crime with his gritty, kinetic adaptation of Nicolas Pileggi's best-selling Wiseguy.

Rating: 10/10 (5 February 2010)

Godfellas is an incredible, relentless experience about the single-minded pursuit of crime. A Brooklyn boy (Ray Liotta) works his way up the mafia hierarchy, until every thing goes sour.
The film is a scorching saga of criminality run amok, dictating every handshake and tainting every relationship. Cinematically it is lethal and seductive, drawing us into the evily glamorous embrace of the mob lifestyle – but, like Faust, these characters have hell to pay. More than a decade later, no less than 22 members of the cast would be featured in the acclaimed mob-themed TV series The Sopranos. The word "f**k" is used in the film approximately 300 times, ninth most in film.