"Goodfellas" is a 1990 American biographical crime film directed by Martin Scorsese, produced by Irwin Winkler and written by Scorsese and Nicholas Pileggi. It is a film adaptation of the 1985 nonfiction book "Wiseguy" by Pileggi. Starring Ray Liotta as the main character Henry Hill, Robert DeNiro as his associate Jimmy Conway, Joe Pesci as gangster Tommy DeVito, and other major stars, the film narrates the rise and fall of organized crime associate Henry Hill and his friends and family from 1955 to 1980.

In one of the film's highlights, Jimmy Conway organizes a crew to raid the Lufthansa cargo terminal vault at New York City's JFK International Airport on 11 December 1978, stealing several millions in cash and jewelry. It was the largest cash robbery committed on American soil at the time.

After some members purchase expensive items against Jimmy's orders and the getaway truck is found by police, he has most of the crew murdered. In the voiceover narration of Henry Hill, as dead bodies are being discovered all over the city, he theorizes that Jimmy would have killed them anyway rather than share the profits of the spectacular Lufthansa heist.

"Goodfellas" is widely regarded as one of the greatest films ever made, particularly in the gangster genre. In 2000, it was selected for preservation in the National Film Registry by the United States Library of Congress for being deemed "culturally, historically, and aesthetically significant".

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