The Godfather has all the features of an astounding movie to walk into the list of top 10 movies to see before you die, and the film stormed to capture the attention of the audiences in 1972 and was a crime film that took shape from the novel that carried the same name, which was The Godfather, whose author was Mario Puzo. Francis Ford Coppola handled the direction, while the screenplay was taken care of by Puzo and Coppola. The story is about the life pertaining to Corleone crime family and takes you through a passage of ten years starting from 1945 to that of 1955.