If You Loved The Godfather, Watch These 8 Next. Number One Will Start a Family Feud.

The Godfather is family, power and men making quiet decisions at tables. These eight carry that DNA, and every one scores Elite on movie.guru.

Number one isn't a mob movie at all. Make your case in the comments.

1. 8
   The Sting (1973)9.5

   The Godfather's grinning little brother from 1973.

   Same era, same suits, same men making deals in back rooms. Here the swindle is the plot, and it pulled $156M domestic on a reported $5.5M budget.
2. 7
   Taxi Driver (1976)9.5

   Young De Niro, 1970s New York, zero hope. Perfect pairing.

   Same decade, same rot, same question about what a city does to a man. Scorsese made it on a reported $1.9M and it still lands a 9.5.
3. 6
   Memories of Murder (2003)9.4

   A slow burn crime drama that out-dreads most thrillers.

   Like The Godfather, it lets silence do the heavy lifting. Song Kang-ho is great and the Guru's Take is 9.3. Only $15,357 domestic, which is a scandal.
4. 5
   City of God (2002)9.4

   A crime empire built from nothing, told across years.

   The Godfather's rise of a family, moved to a Rio neighborhood. Its audience score beats 100% of movies on movie.guru, and it lands a 9.4.
5. 4
   Dog Day Afternoon (1975)9.4

   The truest Godfather follow-up isn't called Godfather.

   Al Pacino and John Cazale reunite as two very bad bank robbers, with Pacino sweating through every scene. Lumet turned a reported $3.8M into $50M domestic.
6. 3
   12 Angry Men (1957)9.8

   Godfather's best scenes are men at a table. So is this.

   One room, twelve jurors, a life on the line, and power shifting with every vote. Highest movie.guru score on this list at 9.8, and IMDb voters give it a 9.0.
7. 2
   Goodfellas (1990)9.7

   The obvious pick, and it's obvious because it's correct.

   Same mob, same loyalty, none of the romance. De Niro and Pesci, Scorsese at full speed, and a 9.7 movie.guru score with 1.4 million IMDb votes.
8. 1
   Knives Out (2019)9.4

   Yes, a whodunit. It's secretly a Godfather family movie.

   A rich patriarch, an empire, and a family circling it like sharks in sweaters. Same succession fight, more jokes. $312.9M worldwide on a reported $40M budget.

$271.47 says someone calls #1 a crime against cinema, then admits they've seen it three times.

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