Drama · Crime
The Godfather
Avg rating 9.4 / My rating TBC
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · With Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan
- New Hollywood
- Gangster Film
- Auteur Cinema
New York, 1945. The Corleones are one of the city's most powerful crime families, and its patriarch holds court on his daughter's wedding day. The film follows a family business built on favours, loyalty and quiet threat, and a household where private life and organised crime cannot be separated.
Film info
- Runtime
- 2h 55m · 175 min
- Format
- Colour, widescreen, 175 minutes. Plan for a full evening, as the story needs time to accumulate.
- IMDb
- 9.2 / 10 (2,222,804 votes)
- Rotten Tomatoes
- 97% (critics)
- Metacritic
- 100 / 100
- TMDB
- 8.7 / 10 (audience, 23,675 votes)
- Trailer
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