Best Francis Ford Coppola Movies, Ranked
Every Francis Ford Coppola film worth your evening, ranked by audience score. The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 sits at the top with 8.9, and the filmography below spans 1963–2024. Whether you are starting from scratch or filling gaps, this is the order to watch them in.
21 titles · average score 6.9 ·
The top 5 picks
- 1
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992)
★ 8.9 · 174 ratingsFollowing the release of Part III in 1990, Coppola, Barry Malkin, and Walter Murch edited the three films into chronological order to create this nearly ten-hour epic, incorporating scenes not part of the theatrical…
- 2
The Godfather (1972)
★ 8.7 · 23,368 ratingsSpanning 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,…
- 3
The Godfather Part II (1974)
★ 8.6 · 14,191 ratingsIn the continuing saga of the Corleone crime family, a young Vito Corleone grows up in Sicily and in 1910s New York. In the 1950s, Michael Corleone attempts to expand the family business into Las Vegas, Hollywood and…
- 4
Apocalypse Now (1979)
★ 8.3 · 9,270 ratingsAt the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret…
- 5
The Conversation (1974)
★ 7.5 · 2,080 ratingsA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that the couple he is spying on will be murdered.
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How this list is ranked
Ranked by average audience score across Francis Ford Coppola's directing credits, with anything under 150 ratings filtered out so a single obscure short can't outrank a career-defining film. Updated daily from TMDB.
Frequently asked questions
What is Francis Ford Coppola's best movie?
The Godfather Trilogy: 1901-1980 (1992), rated 8.9 by 174 viewers — the highest-scoring film they directed. The Godfather and The Godfather Part II come next.
How many Francis Ford Coppola movies are listed here?
21, spanning 1963 to 2024. Credits with fewer than 150 ratings are left out so the ranking is not skewed by obscure or uncredited work.
Is this list updated?
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