The Godfather
“An offer you can't refuse.”
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.
How The Godfather compares
Every figure below is calculated across the whole of The Godfather, not taken from this film’s own record.
- #1 of 3
- Rank in the series by rating
- The first film
- Where it sits in the series
- 52%
- Share of the series audience
The Godfather (1972) is the highest-rated of the 3 rated films in The Godfather series, at 8.7/10 on TMDB against a series average of 8.2/10.
It is the film that started the series, 19 years before the most recent entry, The Godfather Part III (1990).
Its 23,520 TMDB ratings are 52% of the 44,863 cast across the series, more than any other film in it.
Computed by Movies in Order from The Movie Database (TMDB) collection data for The Godfather, comparing all 3 released films in the series. Last recalculated September 2026.
The Godfather
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