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Francis Ford Coppola filmography. Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer, screenwriter and film composer whose career spans more than fifty years. Coppola has directed twenty-three feature films to date. His films The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now are often cited among the ...
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- 'The Conversation' (1974) An engaging slow-burn mystery/psychological drama with a fantastic Gene Hackman performance at its center, The Conversation sometimes gets overlooked, due to it being released in the decade when Coppola was at the height of his powers.
- 'Rumble Fish' (1983) The Outsiders wasn't the only 1983 movie directed by Francis Ford Coppola to star Matt Dillon and focus on disaffected youth, given that year also saw the release of Rumble Fish.
- 'Bram Stoker's Dracula' (1992) A far cry from the sorts of Dracula movies that had been popular in decades past, Bram Stoker's Dracula updates the famous vampire story for the 1990s.
- 'The Rain People' (1969) Francis Ford Coppola's fourth feature film was The Rain People, and it's arguably the first great movie he directed, too. There were flashes of greatness in his earlier movies, to some extent, but this 1969 film feels confident and striking throughout, being a road movie about loneliness, fears of growing old, and the challenges that come with trying to find like-minded people in an increasingly expanding world.
In 1971, Coppola's film The Godfather (1972) became one of the highest-grossing movies in history and brought him an Oscar for writing the screenplay with Mario Puzo The film was a Best Picture Academy Award-winner, and also brought Coppola a Best Director Oscar nomination.
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Francis Ford Coppola (/ ˈ k oʊ p əl ə / KOH-pəl-ə, Italian:; born 7 April 1939) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is considered one of the leading figures of the New Hollywood film movement of the 1960s and 1970s and is widely considered one of the greatest directors of all time.
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Director Francis Ford Coppola Stars William Campbell Luana Anders Bart Patton. It's standard horror fare -- with one interesting effect that turned up again, 12 years later, in The Conversation. 4. You're a Big Boy Now. 1966 1h 36m TV-MA. 6.0 (2K) Rate.
Francis Ford Coppola. Highest Rated: 100% Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (1991) Lowest Rated: 17% Jack (1996) Birthday: Apr 7, 1939. Birthplace: Detroit, Michigan, USA.
Biography. Francis Ford Coppola (born April 7, 1939) is an American film director, producer and screenwriter. He is widely acclaimed as one of Hollywood's most celebrated and influential film directors. He epitomized the group of filmmakers known as the New Hollywood, which included George Lucas, Martin Scorsese, Robert Altman, Woody Allen and ...
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