Apocalypse Now

1979 · 147 min · EN · R · 8.3 (9,475 votes)

Dir. Francis Ford Coppola · Starring Martin Sheen, Marlon Brando, Frederic Forrest, Albert Hall, Laurence Fishburne, Sam Bottoms · Music Carmine Coppola

“This is the end...”

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At the height of the Vietnam war, Captain Benjamin Willard is sent on a dangerous mission that, officially, "does not exist, nor will it ever exist." His goal is to locate - and eliminate - a mysterious Green Beret Colonel named Walter Kurtz, who has been leading his personal army on illegal guerrilla missions into enemy territory.

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A hallucinatory, dread-soaked descent into the heart of darkness, this film is a visceral, operatic experience. It's a slow-burn exploration of moral decay and human savagery, wrapped in an awe-inspiring, psychedelic war spectacle. The atmosphere is thick with existential dread, leaving a profound and unsettling impact.

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