The Godfather (1972) — Genres & Themes

Genres

  • Drama
  • Crime

Themes

  • Organized Crime and Deadly Betrayal
  • Criminal Underworld and Organized Crime
  • Widowhood and Coping with Loss
  • Mafia Blood Oath: Loyalty and Death
  • Gripping Violent Crime

Keywords

  • based on novel or book
  • loss of loved one
  • love at first sight
  • italy
  • gangster
  • symbolism
  • patriarch
  • europe
  • organized crime
  • mafia
  • religion
  • lawyer
  • revenge motive
  • crime family
  • sicilian mafia
  • religious hypocrisy
  • gun violence
  • rise to power
  • dead horse
  • gang violence