Surveillance expert Harry Caul is hired to tail a young couple. Tracking the pair through San Francisco’s Union Square, the man manages to record a cryptic conversation between them. Tormented by memories of a previous case that ended badly, Caul sets out to determine if the couple are in danger.

This Oscar®-nominated classic directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman is an enthralling character study inspired by Antonioni’s Blow Up. Embodying the Cold War era of paranoia with formal and political rigor, The Conversation deservingly won the Palme d’Or in 1974.