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The Godfather (1972) FR #1 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
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Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
Plot The aging patriarch of an organized crime dynasty transfers control of his clandestine empire to his reluctant son.
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The Godfather Part II (1974) FR #12 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
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Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer Francis Ford Coppola, Mario Puzo
Cast Al Pacino, Robert De Niro, Robert Duvall
Plot The early life and career of Vito Corleone in 1920s New York City is portrayed, while his son, Michael, expands and tightens his grip on the family crime syndicate.
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Apocalypse Now (1979) FR #28 | Movie | War, Adventure | USA, South Korea | English, French
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Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer John Milius, Francis Ford Coppola, Michael Herr
Cast Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Robert Duvall
Plot A U.S. Army officer serving in Vietnam is tasked with assassinating a renegade Special Forces Colonel who sees himself as a god.
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Patton (1970) FR #842 | Movie | Biography, Drama | USA | English, Russian
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Director Franklin J. Schaffner
Writer Francis Ford Coppola, Edmund H. North, Ladislas Farago
Cast George C. Scott, Karl Malden, Stephen Young
Plot The World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.
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The Conversation (1974) FR #1339 | Movie | Mystery, Drama | USA | English
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Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield
Plot A paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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The Godfather Part III (1990) FR #1541 | Movie | Crime, Drama | USA | English, Italian
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Director Francis Ford Coppola
Writer Mario Puzo, Francis Ford Coppola
Cast Al Pacino, Diane Keaton, Andy Garcia
Plot Follows Michael Corleone, now in his 60s, as he seeks to free his family from crime and find a suitable successor to his empire.
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Editorial Best Movies/TV Shows Written by (or adapted from) Francis Ford Coppola collects the writer’s most important, popular and top regarded work. This list is built from the cataogue of 25000 core titles provided on FlickRatings, and showcases most important movies and TV shows as ordered by our score generated using public metadata. Combine this with our weekly updated OTT information to shortlist your next watch.
