The Conversation is an Academy Award nominated mystery thriller about audio surveillance, written and directed by Francis Ford Coppola and starring Gene Hackman, John Cazale, Allen Garfield, Cindy Williams and Frederic Forrest, and featuring Harrison Ford, Terri Garr and an uncredited appearance from Robert Duvall.

In , The Conversation won the Golden Palm at the Cannes Film Festival, and in , it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".