Harry Caul (Gene Hackman) is an expert surveillance man in San Francisco. His routine wiretapping job turns into a nightmare when he hears something disturbing in his recording of a couple; he may have captured something a lot more important than adulterous goings-on. His investigation of the tape and how it might be used sends Harry spiraling into a web of secrecy, murder and paranoia.

Critics Reviews:

• “Although not as formidable in scope and ambition as the Godfather films, this paranoid thriller is arguably one of the high points of the director Francis Ford Coppola’s extra­ordinary run of form in the early 1970s.” – Wendy Ide (Times (UK))

• “As a thriller alone, The Conversation would be worth our attention. But as a thriller which also expresses our actual and collective nightmares, it absolutely demands it.” – Joy Gould Boyum (Wall Street Journal)

• “Coming after the dark, sumptuous classicism of The Godfather, The Conversation’s chop­py, elliptical style looked almost like the work of a different filmmaker, one willing to take risks with new forms and techniques.” – Adam Nayman (The Ringer)