Goodfellas

Goodfellas is a 1990 American film directed by Martin Scorsese, based on Nicholas Pileggi's nonfiction book Wiseguy, dramatizing the rise and eventual downfall of mobster-turned-federal-informant Henry Hill across several decades of organized crime in New York. The film is noted for its kinetic visual style, including an extended unbroken tracking shot following characters through the back entrance of the Copacabana nightclub, and for its use of overlapping voiceover narration to convey the material seductiveness and casual brutality of criminal life. Goodfellas is widely regarded as one of the most influential crime films ever made, shaping the tone and structure of numerous later films and television series about organized crime, including The Sopranos.