Biography: Francis Ford Coppola |

One of the most acclaimed directors of the 1970s, Francis Ford Coppola spearheaded a renaissance in American filmmaking, heralding a golden age which he defined through masterpieces ranging from The Conversation to Apocalypse Now to his crowning... more
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Tags: Fantasy Drama Drama Period Film 
Length: 124min
Legendary director Francis Ford Coppola returns to the director's chair after a ten-year hiatus with this adaptation of Romanian author Mircea Eliade's tome detailing the arduous journey of a professor whose life is thrown into chaos as World War II...

Cast: Francis Ford Coppola Al Pacino Robert De Niro   
Tags: Biography Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 40min
John Cazale's resume as a film actor isn't long, but it's distinguished. Cazale appeared in five feature films, and each one received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture, while three of them -- The Godfather, The Godfather Part II and The...

Fog City Mavericks: The Filmmakers of San Francisco (2007)
Cast: Saul Zaentz George Lucas Clint Eastwood   
Tags: Media Studies Film & Television History Film, TV & Radio Culture & Society Biography 
Length: 120min
While Los Angeles has been the capital of major studio filmmaking in America since the early ears of the 20th Century, in the northern part of California, San Francisco has become home to a different breed of filmmaker -- artists who treasure their...

Coda: Thirty Years Later (2007)
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History Biography 
Length: 60min
Three decades after shooting perhaps the most critically acclaimed filmmaking documentary ever, Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse, Eleanor Coppola again turns a camera lens toward her husband Francis. Coda: Thirty Years Later serves as both...

Tags: Drama Family Drama 
Length: 127min
On the heels of the self-financed, modestly budgeted 2007 drama Youth Without Youth -- his first directorial outing after a ten-year hiatus -- filmmaker Francis Ford Coppola remains situated in the director's chair for this semi-autobiographical...

Tags: Courtroom Drama Drama 
Length: 135min
Francis Ford Coppola is both scripter and director of this drama adapted from the John Grisham novel about broke, inexperienced Memphis law-school graduate Rudy Baylor (Matt Damon), ready to take any job he can find. Signing on with slimy Bruiser...

Cast: Robert Duvall Marlon Brando   
Tags: Anti-War Film Jungle Film Adventure Drama War Epic War 
Length: 203min
Francis Coppola had more than his share of production difficulties while shooting his epic-scale Vietnam War drama Apocalypse Now, including disastrous weather conditions, problems with his leading men (Harvey Keitel was fired after less than two...

A Decade Under the Influence (2003)
Cast: Martin Scorsese Robert Altman Peter Bogdanovich   
Tags: Film, TV & Radio Film & Television History 
Length: 108min
In the late '60s, American culture experienced a period of change as the youth movement challenged conventional attitudes about politics, sex, drugs, and gender issues, while the advancement of the Vietnam War found many citizens questioning the...

Cast: Anthony Hopkins   
Tags: Horror Gothic Film Costume Horror 
Length: 130min
Based on Bram Stoker's classic 1897 novel, this film from Francis Ford Coppola and screenwriter James Victor Hart offers a full-blooded portrait of the immortal Transylvanian vampire. The major departure from Stoker is one of motivation as Count...

Tags: Comedy Drama Domestic Comedy 
Length: 113min
In this film by director Francis Ford Coppola, Robin Williams stars as Jack, a boy who is growing normally, but at many times the normal rate. In a bizarre flashback, we see that he was born when his mother was only ten weeks pregnant. Kept out of...

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