Not all 25 titles below are certain influences, but each has some significance to the making of Goodfellas. Where possible, I quote him on the link between the older movie and his own.
And director Martin Scorsese, in typical fashion, has no problem revealing most of them.
At some point, you’re going to want to re-watch Goodfellas.Īs influential as Goodfellas has been in the several decades, the true-story gangster flick, co-scripted by Nicholas Pileggi based on his nonfiction book “Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family,” is also heavily influenced by other works.
