Checking whether The Godfather is on Netflix in 2026? In most places, no. JustWatch listed it on Netflix in only 4 of the 37 markets checked on October 5, 2026: Switzerland, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. The US isn't one of them. Paramount+ carries it domestically instead.

Reviewed by the VPN Super team · Last updated October 5, 2026

Availability verified against JustWatch on October 5, 2026. Only the markets named below were checked, so this is a sample rather than a complete list of Netflix countries.

Below is where The Godfather was and wasn't on Netflix in the markets checked, why the US split happened, what that means for the rest of the trilogy, and where to watch if your own library doesn't have it.

Is The Godfather on Netflix in 2026?

Mostly no. Of the 37 markets checked on JustWatch on October 5, 2026, only four listed The Godfather (1972) as a Netflix subscription title: Switzerland, New Zealand, the United Arab Emirates, and Egypt. In every other market checked, including the US, UK, Canada, Australia, Germany, and France, it was on other subscription services or available to rent or buy only.

Availability verified against JustWatch on October 5, 2026.

Israel, South Korea, and Ukraine are listed above only because the third-party tracker streaminq.com reports Netflix there. They are not confirmed on JustWatch, and the tracker's list should be read with care: it also lists Australia, Belgium, India, and Spain, where JustWatch did not show The Godfather on Netflix on October 5. Netflix's regional catalog shifts every few weeks as licensing deals lapse or renew, so treat this as a snapshot rather than a permanent fixture, and check your own Netflix search bar if your country isn't listed above.

Why isn't The Godfather on Netflix in the US?

Paramount Pictures produced and released The Godfather in 1972, and Paramount's own service, Paramount+, carries it in the US. When Netflix negotiates access to the film in another country, that's a separate deal covering that territory only, not a global license. That's the simplest explanation for why the film's Netflix footprint looks so different from one market to the next, and why it's missing from most of the markets checked.

Are The Godfather Part II and Part III on Netflix too?

Not in the same places, and that catches a lot of people planning a trilogy marathon off guard. Each film in the series is licensed separately, sometimes to a completely different studio's streaming deal, so a country that has Part I on Netflix often doesn't have Part II or Part III there at all.

Part II runs the longest of the three by a wide margin. It was on Netflix in South Africa, New Zealand, and Egypt among the markets checked, and both Part I and Part II were on Netflix in only New Zealand and Egypt. JustWatch lists Part III and the Coda recut together on one page, and neither appeared on Netflix in any market checked.

With the three titles rarely licensed to the same countries, a full trilogy marathon from one Netflix account isn't possible in most places. A rental through Prime Video or Apple TV covers whichever installment the local library is missing.

Where can you watch The Godfather in the US?

On JustWatch's US listing, The Godfather is a subscription title on Paramount+ (Essential and Premium) and the MGM+ add-on channel. Prime Video also carries it as a subscription option, including the ad-supported tier. For a one-time watch without picking up another subscription, renting it through Apple TV, Prime Video, or Fandango at Home works just as well.

The reason a US subscriber can search Netflix all day and never find it comes down to how regional licensing works generally: a streaming service doesn't buy global rights to a film in one transaction. It negotiates country by country, and a studio can keep its home market for its own platform while licensing other markets separately. That's the pattern here.

Every option above is a legitimate subscription or a paid rental. There's no free workaround listed here, and none needed.

How do you keep your Netflix account private while traveling?

None of this changes if you're traveling with a laptop and want to keep streaming safely on hotel or airport Wi-Fi. Public networks are shared, often unencrypted, and a common spot for someone else on the same network to snoop on unsecured traffic. A streaming VPN encrypts that connection so your internet provider and anyone else on the network can't see what you're watching or track your browsing habits.

What makes The Godfather worth revisiting?

The film follows the Corleone family across a single decade, from 1945 to 1955. When patriarch Vito Corleone survives an assassination attempt, his reluctant youngest son Michael steps into the family business and slowly turns from war hero to mob boss.

It's held up remarkably well since 1972: a 9.2 on IMDb, a 97% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes, and a perfect 100 on Metacritic, a score the site has given to only a small handful of films ever released. The American Film Institute ranked it #2 on its 100 Years...100 Movies list in 2007, up from #3 on the original 1998 edition, one of only a few films from the 1970s to hold a spot that high more than fifty years on.

Part II added to that reputation at the 47th Academy Awards in 1975, when it became the first sequel to win Best Picture, one of six Oscars it took home that night. Between the two films, the Corleone saga has never really left the cultural conversation, which is part of why so many viewers go looking for it on Netflix in the first place.