10 Movies Where The Good Guy & Bad Guy BOTH Lose
5. The Irishman
Martin Scorsese's The Irishman serves as a brilliant companion piece to Goodfellas, stripping away all the sexy flashiness and lingering instead on the empty inevitability of a criminal's life.
On one hand, the FBI never learns the location of labour union leader Jimmy Hoffa's (Al Pacino) body, a mystery which remains up in the air to this very day.
And on the other, though hitman Frank Sheeran (Robert De Niro) lives to a ripe old age, he outlives all of his friends while being a pariah to his own family - especially daughter Peggy (Anna Paquin), who realises that he killed Hoffa.
As a result, the film's chilling coda sequence sees Frank destined to end his life alone in a nursing home, deprived of contact with those he cares about most and set to be lost to time in short order.
All in all, this was a brilliant riposte to decades of accusations that Scorsese has spent his career glamorising the gangster's life, instead flipping the script and showing what happens if a mobster is "lucky" enough to become elderly.