Apocalypse Now
Turkish title: Kıyamet
“This is the end...”
1979 · 2 h 27 min
Directed by 
Francis Ford Coppola
Francis Ford CoppolaCast
Martin Sheen 
Marlon Brando 
Robert Duvall 
Dennis Hopper
Credits
Written by: John Milius
Plot
During the Vietnam War an army captain travels upriver to find and kill a rogue colonel.
Sinekatalog’s take
Coppola's Vietnam odyssey is a river journey into madness, adapted from Conrad. The production was notoriously chaotic, and the film's hallucinatory images and sound design are still staggering.Sinekatalog’s own editorial review – not a user or critic quote.
Ratings
IMDb: 8.4 / 10 (779,983 votes)
Rotten Tomatoes: 91% (150 critic reviews)
IMDb rating and vote count from the IMDb ratings dataset; Rotten Tomatoes snapshot from October 2026. Scores change over time.
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