Donnie Brasco

About Donnie Brasco

An FBI undercover agent infiltrates the mob and identifies more with the mafia life at the expense of his regular one.

Mike Newell's Donnie Brasco is a 1997 crime thriller film. Johnny Depp stars as Donnie Brasco, Al Pacino as Benjamin 'Lefty' Ruggiero, Michael Madsen as Dominick 'Sonny Black' Napolitano, and Bruno Kirby as Nicholas 'Nicky' Santora.

It runs 127 minutes and was released in February 1997. Written by Paul Attanasio. It was produced by Baltimore Pictures, Mandalay Entertainment, and Mark Johnson Productions. The film began as real events.

Shelv files it under undercover, mafia, florida, and surveillance. It streams on BBC America, Netflix, and Netflix Standard with Ads in the United States. It scores 7.5 out of 10 from 5,043 TMDB voters and it carries a R rating.

GoodFellas, The Departed, and Knockaround Guys make useful companions to Donnie Brasco, all filed under 1970s and gangster.