With the self-funded $120 million madness of 'Megalopolis' finally in theaters, we look back at the 'Godfather' and 'Apocalypse Now' director's greatest hits (and biggest flops).

If you catch Megalopolis, Francis Ford Coppola's self-funded epic -- that's budget and marketing costs fronted by, amongst other sources of revenue, the Francis Ford Coppola Winery-you may wonder what kind of filmmaker would make such a ambitious, janky, theatrical, and uncompromised (sometimes to the point of incomprehensible) film. Thankfully, basically only one man has the tenacity and stubbornness to try, and that's Francis Ford Coppola. The director of several "posters hanging in your a film bro's dorm room" tier classics, like The Godfather, The Godfather Part II, and Apocalypse Now, is also responsible for some sentimental bangers you probably caught on TV as a kid, like The Outsiders or Peggy Sue Got Married, as well as truly tenacious flops like One From the Heart. But did you know he got his start making sex comedies and horror pics for Roger Corman? Or that he's been self-funding weird indie projects since the new millennium?

Coppola's career is so worthy of study not because he's Hollywood's greatest artist, or because his filmography is anything close to perfect. But he's been directing feature films for sixty years, and nearly every decade has presented new creative and commercial challenges. A brief catch-up: it turns out offering young, independent directors free rein to make boundary-pushing cinema was unsustainable (at least the way New Hollywood did it); it's really exhausting making Great American Art, especially if you pop off making original musicals that no-one wants to see; the 1980s was a more commercial and conservative decade for Hollywood, and Coppola has to work nonstop to avoid going under; the 1990s was a great time for an experienced master to make their most insane work (complimentary) and also their most insane work (derogatory).

Coppola's production company, American Zoetrope, doesn't just have its name in the history books for producing Coppola's masterpieces or for releasing big league flops that seriously threatened its solvency, but it also consistently produced work that couldn't be find funding anywhere else-like Koyaanisqatsi, Akira Kurosawa's Kagemusha, Paul Schrader's Mishima: A Life in Four Chapters, or Sofia Coppola's The Virgin Suicides (I mean, it helps if your dad founded your production company).

Frankly, the convoluted tangents and inadvisable risks Coppola's career have taken feel integral to his latest epic; watching the baffling choices and sheer gall of Megalopolis on a towering IMAX screen is probably what it's like watching all 23 of his other films superimposed onto each other, all playing at once. Whether you're a superfan itching to correct our list order, or a newbie curious about a unique journey through the past 60 years of American moviemaking, here is a complete list of all 24 feature films directed by Francis Ford Coppola, ranked.