Terrence Malick films, ranked by your taste

Director and actor · 11 films on Boxlist

Known for Badlands, Days of Heaven and The Tree of Life.

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Badlands
1973 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
A dramatization of the Starkweather-Fugate killing spree of the 1950s, in which a teenage girl and her twenty-something boyfriend slaughtered her entire family and several others in the Dakota badlands.
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Days of Heaven
1978 · Film
7.6/10 · TMDB
In 1910, a Chicago steel worker accidentally kills his supervisor and flees to the Texas panhandle with his girlfriend and little sister to work harvesting wheat in the fields of a stoic farmer. A love triangle, a swarm of locusts, a...
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The Tree of Life
2011 · Film
6.7/10 · TMDB
The impressionistic story of a Texas family in the 1950s. The film follows the life journey of the eldest son, Jack, through the innocence of childhood to his disillusioned adult years as he tries to reconcile a complicated relationship...
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The Thin Red Line
1998 · Film
7.5/10 · TMDB
The story of a group of men, an Army Rifle company called C-for-Charlie, who change, suffer, and ultimately make essential discoveries about themselves during the fierce World War II battle of Guadalcanal. It follows their journey, from...
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A Hidden Life
2019 · Film
7.1/10 · TMDB
Austrian farmer Franz Jägerstätter faces the threat of execution for refusing to fight for the Nazis during World War II.
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The New World
2005 · Film
6.6/10 · TMDB
A drama about explorer John Smith and the clash between Native Americans and English settlers in the 17th century.
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Voyage of Time: Life's Journey
2017 · Film
6.3/10 · TMDB
A celebration of the universe, displaying the whole of time, from its start to its final collapse. This film examines all that occurred to prepare the world that stands before us now: science and spirit, birth and death, the grand cosmos...
To the Wonder
2013 · Film
5.9/10 · TMDB
After falling in love in Paris, Marina and Neil come to Oklahoma, where problems arise. Their church's Spanish-born pastor struggles with his faith, while Neil encounters a woman from his childhood.
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Song to Song
2017 · Film
5.4/10 · TMDB
In this modern love story set against the Austin, Texas music scene, two entangled couples — struggling songwriters Faye and BV, and music mogul Cook and the waitress whom he ensnares — chase success through a rock ‘n’ roll landscape of...
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Knight of Cups
2015 · Film
5.6/10 · TMDB
Rick is a screenwriter living in Los Angeles. While successful in his career, his life feels empty. Haunted and confused, he finds temporary solace in the decadent Hollywood excess that defines his existence. Women provide a distraction to...
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Terrence Malick films, ranked by your taste

Starring Terrence Malick

Directed by Terrence Malick