The Godfather

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Spanning 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, Michael steps in to take care of the would-be killers, launching a campaign of bloody revenge.

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  1. The Godfather Part II (1974)

    It has a 69% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.

    In 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 Cuba.

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  2. The Godfather Part III (1990)

    It has a 59% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and the same director.

    In the midst of trying to legitimize his business dealings in 1979 New York and Italy, aging mafia don, Michael Corleone seeks forgiveness for his sins while taking a young protege under his wing.

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  3. GoodFellas (1990)

    It has a 50% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.

    The true story of Henry Hill, a half-Irish, half-Sicilian Brooklyn kid who is adopted by neighbourhood gangsters at an early age and climbs the ranks of a Mafia family under the guidance of Jimmy Conway.

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  4. The Irishman (2019)

    It has a 45% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.

    Pennsylvania, 1956. Frank Sheeran, a war veteran of Irish origin who works as a truck driver, accidentally meets mobster Russell Bufalino. Once Frank becomes his trusted man, Bufalino sends him to Chicago with the task of helping Jimmy Hoffa, a powerful union leader related to organized crime, with whom Frank will maintain a close friendship for nearly twenty years.

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  5. A Bronx Tale (1993)

    It has a 44% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.

    Set in the Bronx during the tumultuous 1960s, an adolescent boy is torn between his honest, working-class father and a violent yet charismatic crime boss. Complicating matters is the youngster's growing attraction - forbidden in his neighborhood - for a beautiful black girl.

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  6. The Alto Knights (2025)

    It has a 43% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.

    Two of New York's most notorious organized crime bosses, Frank Costello and Vito Genovese, vie for control of the city's streets. Once the best of friends, petty jealousies and a series of betrayals place them on a deadly collision course that will reshape the Mafia (and America) forever.

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  7. House of Gucci (2021)

    It has a 42% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.

    When Patrizia Reggiani, an outsider from humble beginnings, marries into the Gucci family, her unbridled ambition begins to unravel the family legacy and triggers a reckless spiral of betrayal, decadence, revenge, and ultimately… murder.

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  8. All the Money in the World (2017)

    It has a 41% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and its story and themes.

    The story of the kidnapping of 16-year-old John Paul Getty III and the desperate attempt by his devoted mother to convince his billionaire grandfather Jean Paul Getty to pay the ransom.

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  9. Casino (1995)

    It has a 39% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, TMDB relationship signals and country of origin.

    In Las Vegas, two best friends--a casino executive and a Mafia enforcer--compete for a gambling empire and a fast-living, fast-loving socialite.

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  10. The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

    It has a 36% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.

    Imprisoned in the 1940s for the double murder of his wife and her lover, upstanding banker Andy Dufresne begins a new life at the Shawshank prison, where he puts his accounting skills to work for an amoral warden. During his long stretch in prison, Dufresne comes to be admired by the other inmates -- including an older prisoner named Red -- for his integrity and unquenchable sense of hope.

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  11. Foma Gordeyev (1959)

    It has a 33% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.

    Foma Gordeyev, the son of a wealthy Volga merchant, doesn't want to continue his father's work. The mind is sickened by the dirt and injustice of life around him. Foma is seeking solace in a drunken rampage and wild antics. After many years of desolation, he is half-ill at the opening of a night shelter built with his father’s money.

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  12. Shaft (2000)

    It has a 32% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by TMDB relationship signals, shared genres and its story and themes.

    New York police detective John Shaft arrests Walter Wade Jr. for a racially motivated slaying. But the only eyewitness disappears, and Wade jumps bail for Switzerland. Two years later Wade returns to face trial, confident his money and influence will get him acquitted -- especially since he's paid a drug kingpin to kill the witness.

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  13. The Horse That Cried (1957)

    It has a 32% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.

    An adaptation of a story by a Ukrainian writer Mykhailo Kotsiubynsky that anticipates the Ukrainian "poetic cinema" of the '60s in its focus on star-crossed lovers and its celebration of nature. Set in the 1830s, the film follows two lovers on the run - a girl forced into marriage and her boyfriend, a serf who's being sought by the authorities - as they try to make their way to freedom.

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  14. The Whisper Man (2026)

    It has a 32% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and country of origin.

    When his young son vanishes, a widower enlists help from his estranged father, a retired detective who put away the serial killer now linked to the case.

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  15. Santini's Network (2014)

    It has a 30% affinity with The Godfather, driven mainly by shared genres, its story and themes and TMDB relationship signals.

    Santini's Network is a biographical film by German filmmaker Georg Brintrup on the life of Roman music collector Fortunato Santini and how his famous private assembly of manuscript scores grew into the greatest music collection of the age.

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