American Zoetrope Archives

THX 1138 (1971)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 12, 2002Dystopian Future

George Lucas's first film and always a puzzle to those who come to it after the Star Wars series where its antiseptic, dehumanised aesthetic and dystopian future seems almost the polar opposite of the Star Wars universe

Director: George Lucas

Actors: Robert Duvall, Donald Pleasence, Maggie McOmie, Don Pedro Colley, …

Category: Science Fiction

12 November 20029 September 2023 by Roog

The People (1972)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 27, 2023Town of Alien Refugees

Quite magical Francis Ford Coppola produced film about a schoolteacher who discovers she had taken a position in a town of alien refugees

Director: John Korty

Actors: Kim Darby, William Shatner, Diane Varsi, Dan O'Herlihy

Category: Science Fiction

27 September 202313 November 2025 by Roog

Peggy Sue Got Married (1986)

Rating: ★★

Oct 19, 2002Time Travel/Housewife Revisists Her Youth

This is Francis Ford Coppola's version of Back to the Future wherein housewife Kathleen Turner wakes up back as her high school self and gets the opportunity to remake her life's choices

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Kathleen Turner, Nicholas Cage, Barry Miller, Kevin J. Connor

Category: Fantasy

19 October 200225 February 2026 by Roog

Bram Stoker’s Dracula (1992)

Rating: ★★★★

Jan 7, 2001Dracula Adaptation

Francis Ford Coppola remakes and reinvents Dracula, transforming the text of Bram Stoker's book into a sensual, visually ravishing film with lush production values that make you gasp in excitement

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Gary Oldman, Winona Ryder, Keanu Reeves, Anthony Hopkins, …

Category: Horror

7 January 200110 December 2025 by Roog

Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein (1994)

Rating: ★★

May 8, 2000Frankenstein Adaptation

An adaptation of Frankenstein made as companion piece to Francis Ford Coppola's Bram Stoker's Dracula. Kenneth Branagh creates a lush production but the attempts to emulate Coppola's sensuality go awry

Director: Kenneth Branagh

Actors: Kenneth Branagh, Robert De Niro, Helena Bonham Carter, Tom Hulce, …

Category: Horror

8 May 20008 July 2026 by Roog

Haunted (1995)

Rating: ★★½

Jun 20, 2001Haunting

An old fashioned Victorian ghost story based on a James Herbert novel, this suffers a very laidback pace but is redeemed by its left field twist ending. Produced by Francis Ford Coppola

Director: Lewis Gilbert

Actors: Aidan Quinn, Kate Beckinsale, Anthony Andrews, Anna Massey, …

Category: Horror

20 June 200117 March 2026 by Roog

Sleepy Hollow (1999)

Rating: ★★★

Jan 4, 2000Headless Horseman Killings

Tim Burton adapts the classic Washington Irving ghost story, although throws most of it out, to make his own beautifully designed period piece spearheaded by another eccentric Johnny Depp performance

Director: Tim Burton

Actors: Johnny Depp, Christina Ricci, Michael Gambon, Miranda Richardson, …

Category: Horror

4 January 200018 March 2025 by Roog

The Third Miracle (1999)

Rating: ★★★★

Nov 4, 1999Catholic Sainthood and Miracles

Agnieszka Holland film with Ed Harris as a Catholic priest who has lost his faith who is asked defend the authenticity of a supposed miracle

Director: Agnieszka Holland

Actors: Ed Harris, Anne Heche, Armin Mueller-Stahl, Michael Rispoli, …

Category: Fantasy

4 November 199922 November 2020 by Roog

Jeepers Creepers (2001)

Rating: ★★★

Aug 31, 2001Backroads Pursuit by a Monster

Creepy film about a brother and sister who are pursued on a road journey by a supernatural creature that drives a truck. This became a word of mouth hit and was followed by several sequels

Director: Victor Salva

Actors: Gina Philips, Justin Long, Jonathan Breck, Patricia Belcher, …

Category: Horror

31 August 200112 May 2026 by Roog

Jeepers Creepers II (2003)

Rating: ★★★½

Feb 10, 2004Backroads Pursuit by a Monster

This was Victor Salva's first sequel to his hit Jeepers Creepers. This is an intensely uncanny and much superior work to the first that heads into outlandish places

Director: Victor Salva

Actors: Ray Wise, Jonathan Breck, Nicki Aycox, Garikayi Mutambirwa, …

Category: Horror

10 February 200412 May 2026 by Roog

Youth Without Youth (2007)

Rating: ★★

Apr 4, 2009Man Regains His Youth

Francis Ford Coppola film that came out the same time as The Case of Benjamin Button where Tim Roth regains his youth after being hit by a lightning bolt

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Tim Roth, Alexandra Maria Lara, Bruno Ganz, Marcel Iures, …

Category: Fantasy

4 April 200911 May 2021 by Roog

Twixt (2011)

Rating: ★★

Jan 26, 2013Ghost Story/Vampire Film

Francis Ford Coppola makes what may be a ghost story or a vampire film but things are so confused you are never sure what. Less like the mature work of one of the great American filmmakers than an ingenue effort from director straight out of film school with a head full of muddled pretensions

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Val Kilmer, Bruce Dern, Elle Fanning, Ben Chaplin, …

Category: Horror

26 January 201321 November 2024 by Roog

Life After Beth (2014)

Rating: ★★★

Sep 6, 2014Zombie Romantic Comedy

Billed as a ‘zom-rom-com', Dane DeHaan deals with girlfriend Aubrey Plaza who has returned from the dead. The film has a quirky appeal even if it is never quite as funny as it promises to be

Director: Jeff Baena

Actors: Aubrey Plaza, Dane DeHaan, John C. Reilly, Matthew Gray Gubler, …

Category: Horror

6 September 201425 June 2026 by Roog

The Beguiled (2017)

Rating: ★★½

Oct 8, 2017Southern Gothic

Sofia Coppola's remake of the 1971 Clint Eastwood film. The original was a work of brooding Southern Gothic of repressed sexual tensions; Sofia seems more interested in making a costume drama that is a stretch to call a horror story any longer

Director: Sofia Coppola

Actors: Colin Farrell, Nicole Kidman, Kirsten Dunst, Elle Fanning, …

Category: Horror

8 October 201727 December 2025 by Roog

Megalopolis (2024)

Rating: ★★½

Nov 23, 2024Building a Utopia

Francis Ford Coppola's extraordinarily ambitious SF film about an architect’s vision of building a utopia. Hated by most audiences, this still contains some great if flawed film-making.

Director: Francis Ford Coppola

Actors: Adam Driver, Nathalie Emmanuel, Giancarlo Espositio, Aubrey Plaza, …

Category: Science Fiction

23 November 202416 May 2026 by Roog