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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.
24 titles. Sort by List order. 1. The Godfather. 1972 2h 55m R. 9.2 (2M) Rate. 100 Metascore. Don Vito Corleone, head of a mafia family, decides to hand over his empire to his youngest son, Michael. However, his decision unintentionally puts the lives of his loved ones in grave danger.
- The Godfather (1972) Of the many critically acclaimed films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, the crown jewel of his career is "The Godfather." The film is often regarded as one of the best movies of all time, and it was a phenomenal financial and critical success when it was released in 1972.
- The Godfather Part II (1974) Francis Ford Coppola established himself as one of the greatest directors of the New Hollywood movement with "The Godfather," and the sequel effectively doubled the acclaim that went his way.
- Apocalypse Now (1979) Francis Ford Coppola adapted Joseph Conrad's 19th-century novella "Heart of Darkness" into a film that's often called the greatest war movie ever made.
- The Conversation (1974) "The Conversation" took home the Cannes Film Festival's highest honor, the Palme d'Or, in 1974 (per The Guardian) and went on to lose the Academy Award for Best Picture to Francis Ford Coppola's other big 1974 hit, "The Godfather Part II."
- Jack
- Dementia 13
- Finian's Rainbow
- You're A Big Boy Now
- Gardens of Stone
- Twixt
- The Godfather Part III
- The Rainmaker
- The Cotton Club
- Youth Without Youth
Jack, released in 1996, is certainly one of Francis Ford Coppola's most baffling films. A strange blend of the 1988 film, Big (starring Tom Hanks) and The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button, Jacktells the story of Jack Powell, a boy who ages at four times the rate of normal children. Robin Williams plays the ten-year-old in the body of a 40-year-old, ...
Dementia 13 was Francis Ford Coppola's very first feature film. The Roger Corman-produced, black-and-white thriller was written by Coppola and tells the story of a widow who decides to travel to her husband's family castle in Ireland in order to assure herself a place in his will. Corman instructed Coppola to make a rip-off of Alfred Hitchcock's Ps...
One of Coppola's lesser-known works, Finian's Rainbow is a 1968 adaptation of a stage musical. In this film, the filmmaker reimagines the classical Hollywood musical for a contemporary audience, leaning into the socio-political preoccupations of the '60s. Finian's Rainbow is about an Irishman, played by Fred Astaire, who steals a leprechaun's gold ...
Coppola's second feature film, You're A Big Boy Now, is a comedy that adapts David Benedictus' 1963 novel. Relocated from London to New York, the film follows the 19-year-old Bernard Chanticleer as he tries to emancipate himself from the grasp of his overbearing parents. The film is an absurdist sex comedy that deals with the romantic entanglements...
Francis Ford Coppola's 1987 military drama, Gardens Of Stones, appears as a spiritual follow-up to the director's classic Vietnam epic, Apocalypse Now. This adaptation of the Nicholas Proffitt novel of the same name, follows a hardened war vet, played by James Caan, who is assigned to "The Old Guard" at Fort Myer, Virginia. This is the U.S. Army's ...
By far one of Coppola's most bizarre, surreal, and experimental works, Twixt was the great filmmaker's last film before his current hiatus (although Coppola is now working on Megalopolis). The story follows down-on-his-luck novelist Hall Baltimore (Val Kilmer) as he attempts to solve a murder in a small town where he was doing book signings. What f...
While The Godfather Part III is certainly a step down from the previous two installments, the film is not without its merits. Coppola never wanted the film to be the third movie in a trilogy, he saw it more as an epilogue. In fact, his original title for the film (and the title taken up by his latest cut of the film) was The Death of Michael Corleo...
Coppola's 1997 adaptation of The Rainmaker stands out among the plethora of other John Grisham adaptations from the '90s. The movie stars Matt Damon as Rudy Baylor, a young law-school grad, who comes up against an insurance company in this David vs. Goliath story. Although not necessarily as stylistically or narratively ambitious as other Francis F...
After the financial failure of his past few films, The Cotton Club sees Coppola reuniting with his Godfather team, writer Mario Puzo and producer Robert Evans. The film marks the director's return to stylish gang violence as it recounts the story of Michael "Dixie" Dwyer (Richard Gere), a mob-backed musician who becomes a Hollywood star. Dixie soon...
In 2007, Coppola adapted Romanian author Mircea Eliade's 1976 novella, Youth Without Youth. The film is a strange and mystical drama about a Romanian professor (played by Tim Roth) who, after being struck by lightning in 1938, finds himself rejuvenated. He subsequently flees to Switzerland, chased by Nazis, after developing psychic powers. Once the...
Apr 5, 2018 · We ranked every Francis Ford Coppola movie, including The Godfather, Finian’s Rainbow, Apocalypse Now, and, er, Jack.
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Feb 17, 2022 · After winning an Academy Award for the screenplay for 1970's Patton, Coppola went on to make, consecutively, The Godfather (1972), The Conversation (1974), The Godfather Part II (1974), and...
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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.
