Drama · Crime
American
1972 · Directed by Francis Ford Coppola · 175 min
New York, 1945. The Corleones are one of the city's most powerful crime families, and a wedding day shows both their warmth and their reach. Coppola treats organised crime as a family drama, told in dark interiors and unhurried scenes.
Why it matters in cinema history
A founding work of the New Hollywood generation, it proved that personal, morally complex filmmaking could also be a mass-market event, and it set the template for the modern prestige crime saga.
Watch with intention
Watch it as a portrait of a family, and notice how often the film uses ordinary rituals to show how power works.
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