Theatrical Release: AUGUST 3, 2001 (NY/LA) AUGUST 24, 2001 (EXPANDS)

Based on the best-selling novel by Mario Puzo (who cowrote the screenplay with director Francis Ford Coppola), THE GODFATHER is an epic tale of Mafia life in America during the 1940s and '50s. Vito Corleone (Marlon Brando) is the family patriarch balancing a love of his family with an ambitious criminal instinct. At the wedding of the don’s daughter, Connie (Talia Shire), youngest son Michael (Al Pacino), a decorated war veteran, is reunited with his family. After an assassination attempt leaves the Godfather too ill to run the family business, sons Michael and Sonny (James Caan), with the help of consigliere Tom Hagen (Robert Duvall), lead the Corleones into a vendetta-filled war with the other mob families. Violent revenge ensues as the family tries to change from its old criminal ways into legitimacy. Diane Keaton, in a stark departure from her usual comedic roles, plays Kay, the long-suffering wife of Michael Corleone. Brilliant casting, music, and storytelling help make THE GODFATHER a classic.

The sequel to THE GODFATHER tells the story of both a young Vito Corleone (Robert De Niro), newly arrived in America, and his son Michael (Al Pacino), forty years later, running the family empire. On the streets of Hell's Kitchen in 1917 New York City, Vito is initiated into the ways of the local cosa nostra by his friend Clemenza (Bruno Kirby). After killing the local mafioso in a towel-wrapped gun, Vito becomes the new man to be respected and feared. Meanwhile, a dour Michael Corleone negotiates with business partner Hyman Roth (legendary method actor Lee Strasberg in his first film role) in Cuba and testifies in front of a Washington Senate committee. Robert Duvall (Tom Hagen), Diane Keaton (Kay Corleone), Talia Shire (Connie Corleone), and John Cazale (Fredo Corleone), reprising their roles from THE GODFATHER, are outstanding as the people forced to watch the new godfather’s moral destruction. Robert De Niro, speaking in Italian, captures the mannerisms of Marlon Brando's Vito Corleone from the first film brilliantly. THE GODFATHER PART II is one of the only major sequels ever made that might just surpass the original.

It's the 1930's where jazz, liquor, dance, nightclubs thrive under the hands of reigning gangsters of the day, and cornet soloist Dixie Dwyer just happened to shake one the moment he saved the life of the suspicious racketeer Dutch Schultz who was targetted for a bullet in the heart. In an eye for an eye response and recompense, Schultz sets Dwyer up with work, women and, played by Richard Gere himself, song.

Musical morality tale about prejudice directed by Francis Ford Copolla and starring Fred Astaire. Based on a Broadway show from the late 40's. Astaire plays an Irishman who's moved to a small southern town. His plan is to bury a leprechaun's pot of gold that he's brought with him - so that it will grow faster. But his plans go awry when his daughter makes the wrong wish while Astaire stands over the magical pot.

This creepy thriller, set in a remote Irish castle, was one of Francis Coppola's earliest films. A crazed axe murderer begins killing off the members of a wealthy family one by one, and it's up to those left alive to figure out who the culprit is before it's too late. There's a bit more gore (including a graphically-filmed decapitation scene) than one might expect in a film from its period.

Francis Ford Coppolla's dark, obsessively worked masterpiece is undoubtedly one of the greatest war films ever made. Apocalypse Now draws from the colonial oppressiveness of Joseph Conrad's novella Heart of Darkness to tell the story of a US Army assassin during the Vietnam Conflict. As Captain Willard (Martin Sheen) journeys up the river to execute the deranged Colonel Kurtz (Marlon Brando), we get a film of towering visual and syntactical impact that explores the madness of war and the darkness at the centre of the human psyche. This DVD is in widescreen anamorphic format and includes commentary by Francis Ford Coppolla.

The film was written over five years before production began. Shot on location in San Francisco. Color by Technicolor. Additional cast: Elizabeth MacRae (Meredith) and Phoebe Alexander (Lurleen).

This creepy thriller, set in a remote Irish castle, was one of Francis Coppola's earliest films. A crazed axe murderer begins killing off the members of a wealthy family one by one, and it's up to those left alive to figure out who the culprit is before it's too late. There's a bit more gore (including a graphically-filmed decapitation scene) than one might expect in a film from its period.

Nominated for 8 Academy Awards, this classic and compelling Vietnam War epic stars Martin Sheen as Captain Willard, who is sent on a dangerous and mesmerizing odyssey into Cambodia to assassinate a renegade American Colonel named Kurtz (Marlon Brando), who has succumbed to the horrors of war and barricaded himself in a remote outpost. Also stars Robert Duvall, Laurence Fishburne, Dennis Hopper and Harrison Ford.

The Cotton Club was the Jazz Age's most electrifying showcase and Harlen's most notorious speakeasy. A jazz musician, Richard Gere, saves the life of mobster Dutch Schultz, only to fight for his own life when he falls for the psychotic gangster's moll. Also starring Gregory Hines as a dancer trying to leap the barrier of prejudice.