User Rating: 8.1/10 26,554 votes Top 250: #198 (register to vote) MOVIEmeter: ? Up 9% in popularity this week. See why on IMDbPro. Director: Francis Ford Coppola Writer: Francis Ford Coppola (written by) Contact: View company contact information for The Conversation on IMDbPro. Release Date: 1974 (Japan) more Genre: Crime | Drama | Mystery | Thriller more Tagline: Harry Caul is an invader of privacy. The best in the business. He can record any conversation between two people anywhere. So far, three people are dead because of him. more Plot: A paranoid and personally-secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple he is spying on will be murdered. | full synopsis Plot Keywords: Surveillance | Paranoid | Recording | Scream | Hitchcockian more Awards: Nominated for 3 Oscars. Another 11 wins & 11 nominations more NewsDesk: (11 articles) Movie Review: '8x10 Tasveer' (From India.com. 3 April 2009, 10:35 AM, PDT) Coppola's next (From JoBlo. 22 March 2009, 9:33 PM, PDT) User Comments: Privacy and Responsibility - A Conflicting Moral Choice more Cast (Complete credited cast)

Gene Hackman	... 	Harry Caul

John Cazale	... 	Stan
Allen Garfield	... 	William P. 'Bernie' Moran

Frederic Forrest	... 	Mark
Cindy Williams	... 	Ann
Michael Higgins	... 	Paul
Elizabeth MacRae	... 	Meredith

Teri Garr	... 	Amy Fredericks

Harrison Ford	... 	Martin Stett
Mark Wheeler	... 	Receptionist
Robert Shields	... 	The Mime
Phoebe Alexander	... 	Lurleen