Francis Ford Coppola

1h 15m

A Roger Corman quickie shot in Ireland with money left over from another production.

1h 36m

Submitted as his film-school thesis. A New York coming-of-age comedy.

2h 25m

A Fred Astaire musical, made at the exact moment the studio musical died.

1h 41m

A pregnant woman driving away from her marriage. Small, and better than its reputation.

2h 55m

He was thirty-two, nearly fired several times, and it won Best Picture.

1h 53m

A surveillance expert who cannot stop listening. Made between the Godfathers and won the Palme d'Or.

3h 22m

Prequel and sequel at once, and the first sequel to win Best Picture.

2h 27m

Sixteen months in the Philippines, a typhoon, and a heart attack. He mortgaged everything he owned.

1h 47m

A Las Vegas romance built entirely on soundstages. It bankrupted his studio.

1h 34m

Shot back-to-back with The Outsiders in stark black-and-white. The stranger and better of the two.

1h 31m

S. E. Hinton, and a cast of future stars nobody had heard of yet.

2h 8m

A Harlem jazz-club epic with a famously chaotic production.

1h 43m

A woman sent back to 1960. Kathleen Turner was Oscar-nominated for it.

1h 51m

Arlington honour guards during Vietnam. His son died during the shoot.

1h 50m

A car maker crushed by the industry, made by a director who had just been through it.

2h 42m

Weaker than the first two, and re-edited in 2020 as The Godfather Coda, which is the better version.

2h 8m

Every effect done in camera, on purpose. Excessive, and the last real hit he had.

1h 53m

Robin Williams as a ten-year-old who ages four times too fast. The low point.

2h 15m

A John Grisham adaptation, made competently and without much interest.

2h 4m

A ten-year gap, then a self-financed return. Very strange, and largely unseen.

2h 7m

Black-and-white, in Buenos Aires, about two brothers. The best of the late self-financed films.

1h 28m

A gothic curio with Val Kilmer, briefly toured with live re-editing.

2h 18m

Forty years of development, a hundred and twenty million of his own money, and no consensus at all.