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The Godfather
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.
Defining films
The Godfather
Taxi Driver
There Will Be Blood
Citizen Kane
Vertigo
Mulholland Drive
Moonlight
The Shawshank Redemption
The Dark Knight
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Schindler’s List
The Matrix
Se7en
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
The Silence of the Lambs
GoodFellas
Saving Private Ryan
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Inglourious Basterds
Back to the Future
Memento
Alien
Directors
Films by decade
Stranger Than Paradise
Nest
Oppenheimer
Dune: Part Two
Spider-Man: No Way Home
Top Gun: Maverick
Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Dune
Jaws
The Batman
Soul
Zack Snyder's Justice League
Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Wild Robot
Avatar: The Way of Water
Deadpool & Wolverine
One Battle After Another
Mulan
John Wick: Chapter 4
The Holdovers
Sinners
F1
Obsession
Moonlight
Get Out
The Social Network
Boyhood
Phantom Thread
Carol
The Master
The Tree of Life
Margaret
Meek's Cutoff
The Connection
Django Unchained
Inception
Interstellar
The Dark Knight Rises
The Lion King
Avengers: Endgame
Joker
Avengers: Infinity War
Whiplash
Wolf of Wall Street
Shutter Island
Toy Story 3
The Avengers
There Will Be Blood
Mulholland Drive
The Dark Knight
Inglourious Basterds
Memento
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
No Country for Old Men
Requiem for a Dream
Avatar
Zodiac
Before Sunset
Lost in Translation
The Hurt Locker
The Royal Tenenbaums
Sideways
Artificial Intelligence: AI
Punch-Drunk Love
Synecdoche, New York
Elephant
The New World
Inland Empire
Wendy and Lucy
As I Was Moving Ahead, Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty
WALL-E
The Shawshank Redemption
Fight Club
Forrest Gump
Schindler’s List
The Matrix
Se7en
The Silence of the Lambs
GoodFellas
Saving Private Ryan
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
American Beauty
Reservoir Dogs
Toy Story
Jurassic Park
Titanic
Heat
L.A. Confidential
Casino
Groundhog Day
Unforgiven
Before Sunrise
Edward Scissorhands
Magnolia
Boogie Nights
Star Wars: Episode V - The Empire Strikes Back
Back to the Future
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Scarface
Aliens
Die Hard
Full Metal Jacket
Blade Runner
Amadeus
The Thing
Stand by Me
The Princess Bride
Raging Bull
E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
The Elephant Man
Ghostbusters
The Breakfast Club
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
The Blues Brothers
When Harry Met Sally...
Brazil
RoboCop
Blue Velvet
This Is Spinal Tap
The Godfather
Taxi Driver
Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope
Alien
Apocalypse Now
Jaws
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Rocky
The Exorcist
The Deer Hunter
Dog Day Afternoon
Annie Hall
Network
Eyes
Young Frankenstein
Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Manhattan
Dawn of the Dead
Carrie
The Conversation
The Texas Chain Saw Massacre
Deliverance
Being There
Paper Moon
To Kill a Mockingbird
The Great Escape
The Apartment
The Sound of Music
Rosemary's Baby
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
Cool Hand Luke
Spartacus
Night of the Living Dead
The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance
Breakfast at Tiffany’s
Bonnie and Clyde
The Wild Bunch
The Hustler
The Manchurian Candidate
West Side Story
Lolita
Easy Rider
The Producers
A Hard Day’s Night
The Party
The Trial
The Servant
Point Blank
Vertigo
Sunset Boulevard
Singin' in the Rain
Paths of Glory
Some Like It Hot
All About Eve
Touch of Evil
The Night of the Hunter
Anatomy of a Murder
The Searchers
Rio Bravo
The African Queen *
Rebel Without a Cause
Ace in the Hole
Sweet Smell of Success
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
In a Lonely Place
The Quiet Man
Shane
The Big Heat
The Asphalt Jungle *
Limelight
A Place in the Sun
An Affair to Remember
Citizen Kane
Casablanca
It's a Wonderful Life
The Great Dictator
Double Indemnity
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre *
The Maltese Falcon *
The Grapes of Wrath
The Big Sleep
Pinocchio
Fantasia
The Philadelphia Story
Bambi
His Girl Friday
Laura
Dumbo
Out of the Past
*** White Heat
To Have and Have Not
Sullivan’s Travels
Red River
How Green Was My Valley
My Darling Clementine
The Lady from Shanghai
Modern Times
The Wizard of Oz
Gone with the Wind
City Lights
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
It Happened One Night
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
King Kong
All Quiet on the Western Front
Bringing Up Baby
The Adventures of Robin Hood
Stagecoach
Duck Soup
Freaks
A Night at the Opera
Scarface
Ninotchka
Top Hat
Trouble in Paradise
The Awful Truth
Steamboat Bill
Make Way for Tomorrow
Only Angels Have Wings
Young Mr. Lincoln
The Kid
The Gold Rush
Sherlock, Jr.
Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans
The Circus
The Cameraman
Greed
The Crowd
Seven Chances
Nanook of the North
The Wind
The Unknown
A Woman of Paris: A Drama of Fate
Foolish Wives
The Wedding March
Lady Windermere's Fan
The General
The Navigator
Our Hospitality
Safety Last!
The Phantom of the Opera
Wings
The Big Parade
Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ
Broken Blossoms
The Birth of a Nation
True Heart Susie
Intolerance
Black Sheep
† Betrayed
Male and Female
Delirium
The Musketeers of Pig Alley
The Cheat
The Cook
The Bell Boy
The Girl and Her Trust
When the Clouds Roll By
The Butcher Boy
Back Stage
Coney Island
The Avenging Conscience
The Lonedale Operator
Don't Change Your Husband
Hearts of the World
Out West
Judith of Bethulia
An Unseen Enemy
The Message
A Corner in Wheat
Those Awful Hats
The Lonely Villa
The Country Doctor
The Sealed Room
Edgar Allen Poe
The Redman’s View
A Trap for Santa Claus
The Curtain Pole
A Drunkard’s Reformation
The Friend of the Family
The Golden Louis
1776, Or the Hessian Renegade
The Light That Came
Money Mad
What Drink Did
The Song of the Shirt
At the Altar
The Taming of the Shrew
Fools of Fate
The Son’s Return
The Voice of the Violin
Two Women and a Man
Six Figures Getting Sick
Theatrical/music performance, also filmed for release as a video.
As director and writer:
Television work—all for NBC-Television Screen Director’s Playhouse
As feature director:
As writer: (prior to Directorial career
Feature films directed by Peckinpah:
Tashlin’s film career has three distinct segments: the first is comprised of his animated work; the second, of his career as a screenwriter and gagman; the third, as a feature director (though he did do some writing only work even after becoming a director). These are noted in the filmography below.
Television work: