directed by: Sergio Leone, year: 1984
actors: Robert De Niro, James Woods, Elizabeth McGovern

Once Upon a Time in America is a crime film that follows the lives of a group of Jewish gangsters in New York City from their childhood in the 1920s through their rise to power in the 1960s. The film explores themes of friendship, loyalty, betrayal, and the American Dream.

Friendship, Betrayal, Nostalgia, Crime, Time