Francis Ford Coppola is a film director.
Francis Ford Coppola . His most well-known films released since the start of the 1980s are the dramas The Outsiders and Rumble Fish ( both 1983 ) , the crime-drama The Cotton Club ( 1984 ) , and the horror film Bram Stoker 's Dracula ( 1992 ) . Rumble Fish is a 1983 American drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola . The Outsiders is a 1983 American coming-of-age drama film directed by Francis Ford Coppola , an adaptation of the novel of the same name by S. E. Hinton .