Friends and family of a married black architect react in different ways to his affair with an Italian secretary.

"No one stays at the top forever." Greed, deception, money, power, and murder occur between two mobster best friends and a trophy wife over a gambling empire.

"No One Is Above The Law." The sheriff of a suburban New Jersey community populated by New York City policeman slowly discovers the town is a front for mob connections and corruption.

"As far back as I can remember, I've always wanted to be a gangster." -- Henry Hill, Brooklyn, N.Y. 1955. Henry Hill and his friends work their way up through the mob hierarchy.

An emotionally self-destructive boxer's journey through life, as the violence and temper that leads him to the top in the ring, destroys his life outside it.