The Godfather

1972 · 2h 55m · 8.7

Drama, Crime

Spanning the years 1945 to 1955, a chronicle of the fictional Italian-American Corleone crime family. When organized crime family patriarch, Vito Corleone barely survives an attempt on his life, his youngest son, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

Francis Ford Coppola

Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Robert Duvall, Richard S. Castellano, Diane Keaton, Talia Shire, Gianni Russo, Sterling Hayden, John Marley

based on novel or book, loss of loved one, love at first sight, italy, gangster, symbolism, patriarch, europe, organized crime, mafia, religion, revenge motive, crime family, sicilian mafia, religious hypocrisy, gun violence, rise to power, gang violence, 1940s, 1950s