The Godfather is a 1972 American crime drama film based on the 1969 novel of the same name by Mario Puzo and directed by Francis Ford Coppola from a screenplay by Puzo, Coppola, and Robert Towne (uncredited). It stars Marlon Brando, Al Pacino, James Caan, Richard S. Castellano, Robert Duvall, Sterling Hayden, John Marley, Richard Conte and Diane Keaton, and features John Cazale, Talia Shire, Al Martino, and Abe Vigoda. The story spans ten...
Luca Brasi practices what he is going to say to the Godfather when he finally...
Woltz drops his silver with a clang. Rising quickly from his seat he walks ha...
Tom listens quietly, looking Woltz in the eye, showing no emotion or reaction...
Sonny enters the office after having sex with the bridesmaid upstairs. Fontan...
Michael answers questions about his family, his father and the guests, that K...
At his sister's wedding, while the festivities are going on, Sonny's wife mak...
Tessio brings in the package Paulie said was delivered to the gate. He places...
Sonny asks Tom what they should do. Tom tells him they loose half of their po...
Unaware that Sollozzo has already murdered Luca, Tom warns Sollozzo telling h...
Tom exits a store while Christmas shopping. He's met by Sollozzo and his muscle.
Tom sits quietly listening to Woltz's rant. When Woltz finishes Tom politely ...
Michael explains how his father got Johnny out of his original singing contra...
Tom tells Sonny that his father wants him. Sonny wants a minute to finish ha...
Don Corleone tells Tom Hagen to still treat Connie's husband as an outsider.
Jack Woltz wont be intimidated like Johnny's former band leader.
Don Corleone wishes Sollozzo well since his interests don't conflict with his.
Kay tries to get Michael to admit that he likes her the way she is.
Tom informs Sollozzo that Sonny will be out for blood.
Mike tells Sonny that killing Sollozzo is strictly business.
Clemenza gives Mike advice on how to walk out of the restaurant after the sho...
Don Corleone looks across the conference table at Tattaglia during the Five F...
After Johnny Fontane sings a song at Connie's reception, the Don goes out to ...
As Michael prepares to move the family to Vegas, Connie charges into the offi...
Barzini is walking alone down a corridor as Michael becomes Connie's child's ...
Don Corleone takes Michael's head in his hands and tenderly kisses him on the...
The Don breaks from business talk for a moment, looking at the glass in his h...
Michael keeps insisting that Green sell the business to him. Angered, he head...
On the ride back from the Five Family meet, the Don shares what he learned fr...
Michael comes down the steps toward the car to find Fabrizio leaving the grou...
Tom is sitting alone downstairs. The Don comes down and sits in a chair close...
Connie smashes the china in the kitchen then procedes to the dining room, whe...
After beating Carlo with his fist and a garbage can, Sonny kicks him several ...
During their walk back from Corleone the three men meet several women walking...
Tom and Sonny come downstairs after their father dismissed them. Tom advises ...
At the restaurant, Capt. McCluskey tucks his napkin under his chin. Sollozzo ...
An hour and a half before the met, Sonny gets a call divulging the location. ...
After Tom starts to buy in to Michael's plan, Michael looks up at Sonny.
Sonny walks over to where Michael is seated and bends over him. Placing a fin...
Tom wants to know what the Turk had to say when he contacted him.
On the front steps of the hospital Michael turns up both he an Enzo's coat co...
At his father's, Michael hangs up the phone after receiving a call from Kay.
Pulled over to the road side in Jersey, Rocco shoots Paulie several times in ...
Bonasera sits across the desk from Don Corleone in a dimly lit room.
Don Corleone tells Michael that Men cannot afford to be careless.
Michael swears that the Corleone family is going to be legitimate in 5 years.
Sonny tells Carlo that if he hits Connie again he is going to kill him.
Don Corleone puts Sonny in his place about speaking his mind without thinking...
Sonny tells Carlo that if he hurts Connie again he will kill him.
Fredo tells his father that he is going to Vegas to learn the casino business.
Sollozzo hopes that he can speak plainly with Mike, unlike Sonny.
Vito tells Bonasera that he will give him justice as a favor, and to wait to ...
At Woltz's dining room table Tom explains the importance of Woltz granting th...
When Tom tells Woltz about the problems he has that they can make disappear, ...
Fontane, sitting on the Don's desk, lamenting about the down turn in his care...
Luca Brasi sits by himself, talking to himself, practicing over and over agai...
When Bonasera leaves, the Don tells Tom who to put on the assignment.
Vito stands up from his chair, slowly he walks around the desk. He stops in f...
Sonny assigns Mike to find Luca, Tom suggests otherwise.
Tom, his face pained and saddened, looks down and to the side as Sollozzo mak...
Michael reads the article, crumples the paper and runs across the street to a...
While Don Corleone is handling the Sollozzo business Mike and Kay are Christm...
By now, Woltz is leaning forward to the point that he's in Tom's face. Tom, m...
Vito is excited that Johnny Fontane came to the wedding, but Tom is skeptical...
Michael assures Kay that he is different from his family.
Don Corleone promises Johnny Fontane that he will get the movie part.
Jack Woltz is a lot nicer to Tom once he finds out the he works for Don Corle...
Jack Woltz tells Tom Hagen that he can't afford to be made to look ridiculous.
Don Corleone chastises Sonny for speaking when he should be listening.
Sollozzo tells Sonny that he is going to release Tom Hagen with a proposal.
Tom tells Sollozzo that Luca Brasi will come after him with force.
Clemenza tells Paulie that Sonny is going to start a war after his dad was shot.
Sonny is surprised that Mike is willing to kill Sollozzo.
Clemenza tells Mike that he wants the gun noisy to scare people away.
Stricken with grief, his face contorted, Don Corleone views Sonny's bullet ri...
During Connie's reception, Sonny enters the parking area outside of their hom...
Tessio, realizing that he has been discovered and is about to be executed, lo...
The baptism of Connie and Carlos' child progresses as does Michael's plan to ...
The Don rises from his seat, walks over next to Michael and sits close to him.
Michael listens quietly, leaning forward in his chair, as his father talks to...
Michael sits across the table in a suite in Moe Green's hotel. Michael offers...
Don Corleone rises from the conference table, looking up and down it as he sp...
Don Tommasino interrupts Apollonia's driving lession. Standing between the ca...
Brought out by the beating of his pregnant sister, Sonny is massacred at a to...
After Carlo refuses to eat the dinner he asked her to cook, Connie starts tra...
Entering Corleone, walking down the street, Michael turns back to Calo.
The Don is in bed in his home. Sonny and Tom bring him up to speed on the sta...
Michael is leaving the house to make the hit on the Turk. Sonny walks with hi...
During a break in Mike's training to hit the Turk, Clemenza looks at him in e...
Tom smiles at Michael as he turns in his chair, still pitching his idea to ta...
Everyone sits quietly for a minute after hearing Michael's plan to have a wea...
While they take their coats off, returning from the hospital, Sonny tells Tom...
Tom, Clemenza and Michael arrive at the house to find extra guards posted.
Michael sends Enzo outside to wait for him in front of the hospital. Before g...
Michael prepares to leave his father's house. Sonny notices and questions him.
Riding in Jersey Clemenza tells Paulie to pull the car to the side of the road.
Tessio and Clemenza complain about the pressure that Barzini is putting on them.
Micheal tells Fredo to remember his loyalty to the family.
Michael wonders if Kay is being naive about the way the world works.
Don Barzini asks Don Corleone to allow the others to use his judges.
Tom is very upset. He tells Don Corleone that Sonny was killed.
Jack Woltz tells Tom Hagen that he can't afford to be made to look ridiculous.
Clemenza instructs Mike how to proceed when he gets to the restaurant.
Vito tells Bonasera that if they had been friends his enemies would all fear ...
Tom explains to his wife why he is working so hard and not participating in t...
Paulie looks longingly at Connie's wedding purse and the amount of money that...
Tom sits across Woltz's dining room table. They eat and drink as they talk.
Tom arrives at Woltz's studios in California. Woltz signs a form then walks t...
Michael tells Kay the story of how his father helped Johnny Fontane get relea...
Don Corleone, Bonasera having met his terms, walks him to the door. The men s...
Don Corleone sits in his desk chair holding a kitten in his lap. Bonasera sta...
Paulie called in sick the day the Don was hit. When Paulie leaves the room So...
Tom is standing in the rain waiting for a car to take him home, when Sollozzo...
Sollozzo tells Tom he knows that he and Sonny liked the deal he offered Don C...
Leaving Radio City music hall, in passing Kay sees the news paper headlines a...
The Don calls Luca Brasi into his office after the Sollozzo meet to give him ...
As Tom goes over business with the Don during the reception, Connie is heard ...
After listening intently to the information Tom's presented, the Don sits for...
Tom continues to dine quietly, nonchalantly, as Woltz talks.
Michael tells Kay the back story of how Tom came to be with the family.
Kay presses Michael to tell her what the Don's offer was to Johnny's old mana...
Jack Woltz tells Tom Hagen that he doesn't want to be threatened by any mafia...
Jack tries to explain to Tom why he doesn't want to give Johnny the part.
Don Corleone regards narcotics as a dirty business and tells Sollozzo that he...
Don Corleone sends Luca Brasi to find out what Sollozzo is up to.
Clemenza informs Sonny that people on the street think that The Don is alread...
Sollozzo tells Tom that it is up to him to make the peace.
Tom tells Captain McCluskey that he is going to have to show cause if he want...
Clemenza shows Mike the gun that they're going to use to kill Sollozzo.
In Sicily, less than an hour after seeing Apollonia for the first time, Micha...
It's close to the hour of Michael's meeting with the Turk and Capt. McCluskey...
Kay goes to the kitchen to fix a drink. She looks back into Michael's office....
Carlo rises, Al Neri walks around behind him. Michael walks up to Carlo, ment...
Unaware that Barzini has been murdered, and on the way to what Tessio think's...
At the grave site, Michael sits back down next to Tom after talking to Tessio.
After returning from Vegas, Michael and Kay drive up to his father's home.
Green rises from the table, slapping his hands together, irate at Michael's p...
Don Zaluchi stands to put his piece in during the meeting of the Five Families.
The scene changes from Tom and Don Corleone in the funeral parlor to Michael ...
Connie calls her parents house after Carlo beats her. Mama Corleone, unable t...
After answering a call from an unidentified woman asking for Carlo, Connie wa...
Calo taps Michael on the shoulder, braking his gaze. Apollonia looks at Micha...
A war started after Michael executed the Turk and Capt. McCluskey. Some time ...
After Clememza briefs Michael on how to carry off the hit, Sonny, sitting nex...
Michael is aiming the gun. He turns toward Clemenza to answer his question.
As Sonny walks away from Michael toward Tom, Michael turns in his chair, look...
Michael sits in the chair, straight faced as the camera moves in on him.
Sonny informs Tom of the number of soldiers he has on the street.
Just as Capt. McCluskey hits Michael in front of the hospital, Tom arrives.
After moving his father to another room Michael hears footsteps come down the...
Clemenza is instructing Michael on how to make sauce. Sonny playfully interru...
In preparation for the war Clemenza checks with Paulie's progress on getting ...
Don Zaluchi tells the other Dons that he doesn't believe in Drugs.
Kay informs Michael that Connie wants him to be her child's Godfather.
Moe Greene is upset that Micheal is forcing him out of the casino.
Don Corleone figures out that Don Barzini is the one who orchestrated the war...
Jack Woltz tells Tom Hagen that he can't afford to be made to look ridiculous.
Paulie looks longingly at Connie's wedding purse and the amount of money that...
Tessio thinks that the spot Sollozzo picked is perfect for them.
Don Corleone asks Bonasera to offer him friendship when he makes a vile reque...
Tom, eating his dinner, pauses momentarily and looks toward the maid who's st...
Shortly after their initial meeting, Tom arrives at Woltz's home as his invit...
Fontane tells Don that, contrary to what the Don has just promised, he won't ...
Paulie is watching from a few feet away as the wedding guests fill Connie's p...
Paulie interrupts the council. When he leaves the room Sonny turns to Clemenza.
Sollozzo frees Tom to go. As Tom leaves Sollozzo shares his perspective with ...
In Sollozzo's custody, Tom sits quietly, his eyes down. His eyes dart up at S...
Don Corleone stops at the fruit stand before heading home. Fredo waits in the...
After the meeting with Sollozzo in their Genco office, Don Corleone scolds hi...
After dealing with Bonasera, the Don rejoins the festivities. The family is l...
As Woltz sits in his bed screaming, back in New York, Don Corleone sits with ...
Michael tells Kay that the godfather made an offer he couldn't refuse.
Tom informs Jack that Johnny is The Don's godson and it is a very special rel...
Don Corleone apologizes for saying no to Sollozzo and that he won't get invol...
Don Corleone doesn't like the fact that Sonny spoke out when outsiders were p...
Sonny tells Mike that he should be home with his mother while their father is...
Sollozzo thinks that he has the upper hand in the coming war.
Clemenza makes fun of Mike for not telling Kay that he loves her.
Captain McCluskey is upset that Mike was at the hospital when he showed up.
Sonny tells Tom that he will do anything to avenge his father.
After having his enemies executed, Michael deals with the traitors in his fam...
After they laugh at Michael's proposal to kill the Turk and his police bodygu...
Connie accuses Michael of killing Carlo and others in front of Kay.
Mike enters the house with in with Al Neri and Tom. Carlo begins to sweat.
As Michael accepts baptism, Bruno Tattaglia, Barzini, and Moe Greene, among o...
At his father's funeral, Tessio, pulling Michael aside, is the one that bring...
Don Corleone gestures with his hands, looking down, then towards his son, the...
Michael, pulling calmly from a cigarette as Fredo standing over him, gestures...
After Moe Green storms out of a contentious meeting with Michael, Michael loo...
Michael, who's returned a year or so ago, sees Kay for the first time. They w...
During a meeting with the Five Families Barzini and Tattaglia take Don Corleo...
The scene changes from Tom making the call at the house to Bonasera's Funeral...
After Connie brakes up the china, Carlo removes his belt and starts hitting h...
Kay Adams arrives at Don Corleone's home in the States about the time Michael...
Fabrizio looks back at the expression on Michael's face as he stares quietly ...
The Don lay upstairs in his bed while the rest of the family, Michael excepte...
Michael gets the okay from McCluskey to go to the men's room. As he passes th...
Michael sits at the dinner table, eyes down, listening. Tom stands behind him...
Sonny kisses Michael on the head after making fun of his plan to the Turk and...
Michael, who has up to now been sitting quietly, listening joins the discussion.
On their return from the hospital after the second attempt on Don Corleone's ...
Within minutes of Michael and Enzo bluffing the Turk's men into thinking they...
Michael arrives at the hospital to find that the family's men and the police ...
Sonny tells Clemenza to make sure that the gun is planted properly.
Michael tells Fredo that he is going to make Moe Green an offer he can't refu...
Don Corleone tells the other Dons that he will blame them if anything happens...
Don Corleone asks Bonasera to make Sonny look presentable for his funeral.
Carlo yells at Connie for breaking their dishes in a temper tantrum.
Tom thinks that Sollozzo is invulnerable while McCluskey is around.
Vito slaps some sense into his godson Johnny.
Don Corleone is upset that Bonasera has never asked for his friendship in the...
Don Corleone is upset to find out that Michael was the one who killed Sollozzo.
Sollozzo informs Captain McCluskey that he is going to conduct business in It...
Clemenza tells Mike that things are going to be bad after he kills Sollozzo a...
Clemenza asks Paulie to get him more wine. He is tired of dancing.
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