GoodFellas vs Hoodlum

GoodFellas has the higher audience score (8.5/10 against 6.4/10 for Hoodlum). Hoodlum is the shorter watch at 2h 10m compared with 2h 25m. GoodFellas is the older of the two (1990 against 1997). Both are crime, drama movies, so they suit a similar mood.

GoodFellas posterGoodFellas1990 VS Hoodlum posterHoodlum1997
GoodFellasHoodlum
Audience score★ 8.5/10★ 6.4/10
Year19901997
Length2h 25m2h 10m
GenresCrime, DramaCrime, Drama
CountryUnited States of America–
DirectorMartin ScorseseBill Duke
Main castRay Liotta, Robert De Niro, Frank Vincent, Tony Darrow, Lorraine BraccoChi McBride, Laurence Fishburne, Queen Latifah, Loretta Devine, Vanessa Williams

Synopsis

GoodFellas

The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

Hoodlum

In 1934, the second most lucrative business in New York City was running 'the numbers'. When Madam Queen—the powerful woman who runs the scam in Harlem—is arrested, Ellsworth 'Bumpy' Johnson takes over the business and must resist an invasion from a merciless mobster.

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