The Godfather

The aging patriarch of the Corleone crime dynasty Don Vito Corleone is shot and nearly killed when he refuses to back a rival gangster’s narcotics operation. In the chaos that follows his reluctant youngest son Michael is drawn step by irreversible step into the world his father built. What begins as an act of love becomes a transformation so complete and so cold that by the end Michael has become something his father never intended him to be. Francis Ford Coppola’s masterpiece is widely considered the greatest American film ever made — a Shakespearean tragedy dressed as a gangster film.