Once Upon a Time in America

Once Upon a Time in America

Crime, passion and lust for power.

1984139 min8.4 / 10

A sprawling, melancholic meditation on friendship, betrayal, and the inescapable weight of the past, told through the fractured memories of a aging gangster returning to the ruins of his youth.

A former Prohibition-era Jewish gangster returns to the Lower East Side of Manhattan over thirty years later, where he once again must confront the ghosts and regrets of his old life.

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