Francis Ford Coppola · Filmography Ranked
Best Francis Ford Coppola Films, Ranked by IQ Score
Five decades of one of American cinema's most-canonical directors. Every Coppola film, ranked by IQ Score.
Francis Ford Coppola's filmography contains some of American cinema's most-canonical films, and some of its most-celebrated commercial failures. The structural seriousness of the 1970s catalog (Godfather I-II, The Conversation, Apocalypse Now) was the medium's standard for what a film auteur's prestige work could be.
Anchor picks: The Godfather Part II (1974) is widely cited as the medium's greatest American film. The Godfather (1972) is the canonical starting point. Apocalypse Now (1979) is the catalog's most-formally-ambitious work. The Conversation (1974) is the catalog's most-disciplined chamber-piece, Cannes Palme d'Or winner, same year Godfather Part II won the Best Picture Oscar.
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